Fleet Street facts for kids

Fleet Street in 1890

Fleet Street is a road in central London. It used to be where newspapers were made, before they moved east to Wapping.

The street already existed in the 14th century. It connected the City of London to Westminster. It takes its name from the River Fleet.

Images for kids

Fleet Street road sign. The street numbering runs consecutively from west to east south-side and then east to west north-side.
A blue plaque marking the location of the Anti-Corn Law League headquarters on No. 67 Fleet Street
The former offices of the Daily Telegraph Building at No. 135–141
Fleet Street pictured in 1953, with flags hung for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
St-Dunstan-in-the-West on Fleet Street, pictured in 1842
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
The Temple Bar Marker, one of the boundary markers of the City of London.