Little Italy, London

Little Italy, London (sometimes referred to as the Italian quarter) was an Italian ethnic enclave in London. Little Italy's core historical borders are usually placed at Clerkenwell Road, Farringdon Road and Rosebery Avenue – the Saffron Hill area of Clerkenwell. Clerkenwell spans Camden Borough & Islington Borough. Saffron Hill & the Italian Church fall within the Camden side.^[1]

In the modern day, the Italian community is more dispersed, with Italians living in the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Islington and southern parts of the London Borough of Camden. The three boroughs have 21,000 Italians (14,000 in Camden, 4,000 in Westminster and 3,000 in Islington).

The area has 5,000~ Maltese people (from Malta, an island nation near Sicily) and 5,000~ French-Italian/Corsican people (including Corsicans from Corsica & Marseille, and French-Italians from Marseille) who have assimilated into the Italian community due to Maltese and Corsicans being Catholic and fluent in Italian (with Malta & Corsica being considered a part of Greater Italy by Italian Irredentists)– the entire community in the area consists of about 30,000~ people.