Roughly parallel with the south portion of Charing Cross Road, and a few yards to the east of it, runs the older and narrower ST. MARTIN'S LANE, which, with the Coliseum on the right and the Duke of York's Theatre and the New Theatre on the left, skirts the west side of the Covent Garden district (Walk 20), into which Garrick St. and Long Acre diverge on the right. From Upper St. Martin's Lane, with Aldridge's Horse Repository on the left, West Street, in which are St. Martin's Theatre and the Ambassadors Theatre, leads north-west to Cambridge Circus, while the main line of thoroughfare is continued north by Little and Great St. Andrew Streets, through Seven Dials, once a notorious thieves' quarter, towards Broad St. and New Oxford Street. Seven Dials proper, a circular space at the junction of seven narrow streets, derived its name from a column bearing six or seven arms which once stood here. The column, removed in 1773, was set up again in 1822 at Weybridge .
