What is Soho?
[[File:Soho palace theatre 1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Soho Palace Theatre]] {{Infobox UK place| |official_name = Soho |region = London |country = England |latitude = 51.513 |longitude = -0.131 |scale = 5000 |london_borough = Westminster |constituency_westminster = Cities of London and Westminster |os_grid_reference = TQ295815 }} '''Soho''' is an area of the [[City of Westminster]] and the [[West End of London]]. It is long established as an entertainment district. For much of the 20th century Soho had [[sex shop]]s, [[prostitute]]s, [[jazz]] clubs, [[Bar (business)|bars]], [[night club]]s, [[theatre]]s and the [[Movie|movie industry]]. Since the early 1980s, the area has changed greatly: it has moved upmarket.<ref>To 'move upmarket' = to become expensive and respectable.</ref> It now is a fashionable district of expensive restaurants and media offices, with only a few sex industry venues. Some music venues survive, such as Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. The area includes [[Carnaby Street]], the centre of the '[[Swinging London]]' [[fashion]] scene of the 1960s, and [[Wardour Street]], a centre of the movie and entertainment industry. == Geography == [[File:Soho - map 1.png|thumb|right|250px|Map of Soho]] Soho was never an administrative unit with formal boundaries. It is an area of about a square mile, bounded by [[Oxford Street]] to the north, [[Regent Street]] to the west, [[Leicester Square]] to the south and [[Charing Cross Road]] to the east. Apart from Oxford Street, all of these roads are 19th-century metropolitan improvements. The area to the west is known as [[Mayfair]], to the north [[Fitzrovia]], to the east [[St Giles, London|St Giles]] and [[Covent Garden]], and to the south [[St James's]]. According to the Soho Society, [[Chinatown, London|Chinatown]], the area between [[Leicester Square]] to the south and Shaftesbury Avenue to the north, is part of Soho, although