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Strand

The Strand is a major street in the , . The street, which is part of London's West End theatreland, runs just over 3⁄4 mile from eastwards to Temple Bar, where it becomes Fleet Street in the , and is part of the A4, a main road running west from central London.
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  • Type: Bike rental
  • Description: major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, London, England
  • Also known as: “Strand, London”, “Strand, Strand”, and “the Strand”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and Aldwych tube station.

Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Historic site
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Aldwych is a closed station on the London Underground, located in the in . It was opened in 1907 with the name Strand, after the street on which it is located.

Arts center
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is a large neoclassical building complex situated on the south side of the Strand in , overlooking the , just east of . is situated 780 feet southwest of Strand.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Clement Danes and Temple.

Neighborhood
was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of , England; an ecclesiastical version remains. The parish was split between the Liberty of Westminster and the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Quarter
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The is an area or precinct of the surrounding . It is one of the main legal districts in London and a notable centre for English law, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of , and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.

Strand

Latitude
51.51255° or 51° 30′ 45″ north
Longitude
-0.11521° or 0° 6′ 55″ west
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
Brand
Santander Cycles
Operator
Serco Group
Network
tfl_cycle_hire
Open location code
9C3XGV7M+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1319881904
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­bicycle_rental
Geo­Names ID
6640323
Wiki­data ID
Q756819
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Strand” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Strand, Londen”
  • Afrikaans: “Strand”
  • Arabic: “ستراند”
  • Armenian: “Ստրենդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Strend”
  • Belarusian: “Стрэнд”
  • Bulgarian: “Странд”
  • Catalan: “Strand”
  • Chinese: “河岸街”
  • Czech: “Strand”
  • Danish: “Strand”
  • Danish: “the Strand”
  • Dutch: “Strand”
  • Dutch: “The Strand”
  • Esperanto: “Strand”
  • Esperanto: “The Strand”
  • Finnish: “Strand (katu Lontoossa)”
  • Finnish: “Strand”
  • French: “The Strand”
  • German: “Strand”
  • Hebrew: “הסטרנד”
  • Hebrew: “סטרנד”
  • Hebrew: “רחוב הסטרנד”
  • Hebrew: “רחוב סטרנד”
  • Hungarian: “Strand”
  • Indonesian: “Strand”
  • Irish: “Strand, Londain”
  • Irish: “Strand”
  • Italian: “Strand”
  • Japanese: “ストランド (ロンドン)”
  • Japanese: “ストランド”
  • Korean: “스트랜드”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Strand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The Strand”
  • Norwegian: “Strand”
  • Persian: “استرند، لندن”
  • Polish: “Strand (Londyn)”
  • Polish: “Strand”
  • Portuguese: “Strand”
  • Russian: “Стренд”
  • Russian: “Стрэнд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Strand, London”
  • Slovak: “Strand”
  • Slovenian: “Strand”
  • Spanish: “Strand”
  • Swedish: “Strand”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Strand”
  • Turkish: “Strand, Londra”
  • Turkish: “Strand”
  • Ukrainian: “Стренд”
  • Urdu: “اسٹرینڈ، لندن”
  • Welsh: “Y Strand”

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