Piccadilly Circus and surrounding area. Piccadilly Circus is a famous traffic intersection and public space of London’s West End in the City of Westminster . Built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly (the circus refers to circular open space at a street junction), it now links directly to the theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue as well as the Haymarket, Coventry Street (onwards to Leicester Square) and Glasshouse Street. - Wikipedeia. More than a day trip from Thornbury Castle, and certainly worth the travel! (You can view this video, and other travel videos in full-size and near-DVD quality, travel stills and more at www.jpmeyer.com). Thornbury Castle is part of the von Essen Group of hotels, a private collection of individual country house hotels in the UK, each with a distinctive style and character of its own according to www.vonessenhotels.co.uk, but we think of it as Real People having Real Fun!