Randomness Guide to London - Differences between Version 8 and Version 1 of Locale Strand
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<div class="neighbouring_postcodes_grid"> || [[Locale Leicester Square|Leicester Sq]] || [[Locale Covent Garden|Covent Garden]] || [[Locale Holborn|Holborn]] || || [[Locale Trafalgar Square|Trafalgar Sq]] || Strand || [[Locale Fleet Street|Fleet Street]] || || [[Locale Whitehall|Whitehall]] || [[Locale Embankment|Embankment]] || [[Locale Blackfriars|Blackfriars]] || </div> |
The following list is automatically generated: @INDEX_LIST [[Locale Strand]] @INDEX_MAP [[Locale Strand]] |
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category='Locales'
An area of London around the historic shopping thoroughfare (though it has been displaced as the centre of London shopping since the 19th Century by [[Locale Oxford Street|Oxford Street]] and that part of the West End). It is within the City of Westminster and in modern times is dominated at the eastern end by [[Locale Aldwych|Aldwych]] and the Royal Courts of Justice. It runs east from [[Locale Trafalgar Square|Trafalgar Square]] and becomes [[Locale Fleet Street|Fleet Street]] at the boundary of [[Locale City|the City of London]]. The word "strand" means "the land bordering a sea, lake, or river". Although the Strand now lies some distance from the river, the buildings on its southern side used to look directly onto the Thames; infilling of the Thames for the construction of the Victoria Embankment in 1865-1870 moved the river further away from the Strand. The area to the south of the Strand is sometimes known as "Adelphi". See also: * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand%2C_London Wikipedia entry] Auto-generated list of things on or near Strand (@MAP_LINK [[Locale Strand|view them on a map]]): @INDEX_LIST [[Locale Strand]] address='' category='Locales,Streets' edit_type='Minor tidying' fax='' formatted_website_text='' host='161.74.11.26' hours_text='' locale='Central London' major_change='0' map_link='' opening_hours_text='' phone='' postcode='' summary='Historic shopping street at the boundary of the City.' |
category='Locales' summary='Historic shopping street at the boundary of the City.' |
The following list is automatically generated: (unprocessed INDEX_LIST macro) @INDEX_MAP Locale Strand
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