{{Short description|Street in the City of Westminster, London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} thumb|Litchfield Street, south side, looking east. '''Litchfield Street''' is a street in the City of Westminster, London, that runs from Charing Cross Road in the west to West Street in the east. The street is only half its original length.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols33-4/pp360-379#h3-0007 Newport Market Area: Newport Estate], british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 February 2021.</ref>
In 1929 Anton Zwemmer established the Zwemmer Gallery in Litchfield Street (near the corner with Charing Cross Road), which became "a mecca for artists throughout Britain and a center for the modern art movement".<ref name="carlin">Jane Carlin, [https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1510&context=faculty_pubs "Anton Zwemmer: London's Bookseller and Publisher for the Arts"], in: Book Club of Washington Journal, Fall 2012, Vol. 12, No. 2. Retrieved 17 February 2021.</ref>
Bunjies Coffee House & Folk Cellar, one of the original folk cafés of the 1950s/1960s, was situated at 27 Litchfield Street. On 15 February 1996, a 5-pound (2.3 kg) high explosive bomb placed in a telephone box at the junction of Charing Cross Road and Litchfield Street, was disarmed by Police.<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1996/mar/04/terrorist-incidents "Terrorist Incidents"]. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Written Answers (Commons). 4 March 1996. col. vol 273 cc51–62W.</ref>
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