Munzopoly! (Strand)
Creator: Zalgariath
Deployed: YES
Deployed On: Jul 26, 2011
Location: N/A
First to Capture: rodz
Last Capture: Mar 12, 2013
Number of Captures: 18
Decimal: 51.51283 -0.11477
Degrees: 51° 30.77 -0° 6.886
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DEPLOYMENT NOTES:
One close to home... literally. From here you can see Australia House, my Embassy! Behind Arrow. Under rail. Middle
PROPERTY NOTES:
Strand is just over 3/4 of a mile long. It currently starts at Trafalgar Square and runs east to join Fleet Street at Temple Bar, which marks the boundary of the City of London at this point, though its historical length has been longer than this. The name comes from the Old English 'strand', meaning bank or shore. Initially it referred to the shallow bank of the once much wider River Thames, before the construction of the Victoria Embankment.
The route of the Strand was used during the Roman period as part of a route to Silchester, known as "Iter VIII". In the Middle Ages, it became the principal route between the separate settlements of the City of London (the civil and commercial centre) and the Royal Palace of Westminster (the national political centre).
At the east end of the street are two old churches, St Mary-le-Strand and St Clement Danes which are now, owing to road-widening, situated on islands in the middle of the road. Once home to many illustrious manors and palaces, apart from the rebuilt Somerset House, all these grand buildings are now gone and are overlaid by later streets lined by humbler tenements. These were built by property developers on the sites of the old mansions, from the seventeenth century onwards.
DEPLOYMENT NOTES:
One close to home... literally. From here you can see Australia House, my Embassy! Behind Arrow. Under rail. Middle
PROPERTY NOTES:
Strand is just over 3/4 of a mile long. It currently starts at Trafalgar Square and runs east to join Fleet Street at Temple Bar, which marks the boundary of the City of London at this point, though its historical length has been longer than this. The name comes from the Old English 'strand', meaning bank or shore. Initially it referred to the shallow bank of the once much wider River Thames, before the construction of the Victoria Embankment.
The route of the Strand was used during the Roman period as part of a route to Silchester, known as "Iter VIII". In the Middle Ages, it became the principal route between the separate settlements of the City of London (the civil and commercial centre) and the Royal Palace of Westminster (the national political centre).
At the east end of the street are two old churches, St Mary-le-Strand and St Clement Danes which are now, owing to road-widening, situated on islands in the middle of the road. Once home to many illustrious manors and palaces, apart from the rebuilt Somerset House, all these grand buildings are now gone and are overlaid by later streets lined by humbler tenements. These were built by property developers on the sites of the old mansions, from the seventeenth century onwards.