Fleet Street runs east from Temple Bar, the boundary between the Cities of London and Westminster, as a continuation of the Strand from Trafalgar Square. It crosses Chancery Lane and Fetter Lane to reach Ludgate Circus by the London Wall. The road ahead is Ludgate Hill. The street numbering runs consecutively from west to east south-side and then east to west north-side. It links the Roman and medieval boundaries of the City after the latter was extended. The section of Fleet Street between Temple Bar and Fetter Lane is part of the A4, a major road running west through London, although it
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