of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn. Since 1965 it has been part of the London Borough of Camden. Street name etymologies St Giles has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here form a rough triangle: New Oxford Street to the north, Shaftesbury Avenue to the south-east and Charing Cross Road to the west. Brook Mews Bucknall Street – after either Arabella Bucknall (or Bucknell), mother of John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer who owned this land in the 19th century, or Ralph Bucknall, local 17th - 18th century vestryman Cambridge Circus – after Prince George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, who formally opened the new development of Charing Cross Road in 1887 Charing Cross Road – built 1887, and named as it led to the cross at Charing, from the Old English word "cierring", referring to a bend in the River Thames Denmark Place and Denmark Street – after Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne Dyott Street – after either Simon Dyott, local resident in the 17th century, or Jane Dyott, daughter of local landowner Henry Bainbridge Earnshaw Street – after Thomas Earnshaw, noted watchmaker of the 18th-19th century, who worked near here Flitcroft Street – after Henry Flitcroft, architect of St Giles in the Fields church New Compton Street – as with Old Compton Street which extends to the west, it is believed to be named after Henry Compton, Bishop of London in the 1670s New Oxford Street – built as an extension of Oxford Street in 1845-47 Phoenix Street – named after an inn that formerly stood near here Princes Circus St Giles Circus, St Giles High Street and St Giles Passage – after St Giles Hospital, a leper hospital founded by Matilda of Scotland, wife of Henry I in 1117. St Giles was an 8th-century hermit in Provence who was crippled in a hunting accident and later became patron saint of cripples and lepers. Circus is a British term for a road junction, with several roads meeting and a central reservation or 'roundabout, the traffic passing in a one way system around the roundabout or 'circus' Shaftesbury Avenue – after Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Victorian politician and philanthropist Stacey Street – after John Stacey, local landowner in the 16th century Hogarth depictions of St Giles Four Times of the Day The etching "Noon" from Four Times of the Day by Hogarth takes place