Strand, London between 1941 and 2012. The standard British Monopoly board has the Strand in a group with two roads it connects to; Fleet Street and Trafalgar Square. Notes Citations Sources Strand, London Strand (or the Strand) is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, Central London. It runs just over from Trafalgar Square eastwards to Temple Bar, where the road becomes Fleet Street inside the City of London, and is part of the A4, a main road running west from inner London. The road's name comes from the Old English "strond", meaning the edge of a river, as it historically
Fleet Street Charles Dickens' works. The eponymous club in "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club", more commonly known as "The Pickwick Papers", is set in the street, as is Tellson's Bank In "A Tale of Two Cities". The poet John Davidson wrote two works in the late 19th century titled the "Fleet Street Eclogues". Arthur Ransome has a chapter in his Bohemia in London (1907) about earlier inhabitants of the street: Ben Jonson, the Doctor (Samuel Johnson), Coleridge, Hazlitt and Lamb; and about Temple Bar and the Press Club. Fleet Street is a square on the British Monopoly board, in a