Newport Court

Newport Court runs east from Newport Place towards Charing Cross Road, on the southern edge of Soho within Chinatown. Its name comes from Newport House, built in the 1620s; by the 1680s Nicholas Barbon had developed the surrounding land, raising a livestock market with a hall and slaughterhouse on the site of the present court.

The Newport Market area later became a notorious slum, cleared when Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road were driven through in the late 1880s. Once home to Huguenot and Maltese residents, the court now sits among the Chinese restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets that have defined the quarter since the 1950s.