List of London Monopoly locations

The locations on the standard British version of the board game Monopoly are set in London and were selected in 1935 by Victor Watson, managing director of John Waddington Limited. Watson became interested in the board game after his son Norman had tried the Parker Brothers original US version and recommended the company produce a board for the domestic market. He took his secretary Marjory Phillips on a day-trip from the head offices in Leeds to London and the pair looked for suitable locations to use.
The London version of the game was successful, and in 1936 it was exported to Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, becoming the de facto standard board in the British Commonwealth. It became such a success in the UK that Waddingtons ran Monopoly competitions in locations depicted on the board; one such contest was held on platforms 3 and 4 of Fenchurch Street station. The resulting board has been perennially popular around the world, with the chosen locations becoming familiar to millions. Tourists from as far as Canada, Singapore and Saudi Arabia have been known to visit specific locations in London because of their presence on the Monopoly board. In 2003, Watson's grandson unveiled a plaque at what is now a branch of The Co-operative Bank, the original location of the Angel, Islington, to commemorate the elder Watson's contribution to British popular culture.
The set has been celebrated by the Monopoly pub crawl, which attempts to visit all the locations on the board and have a drink at a pub in each one. The relative wealth of the various places has changed slightly. Whitechapel Road is now the cheapest but Mayfair remains the most expensive; in 2016 an estimate by loan provider West One showed the average house price on each was £590,000 and £3,150,000 respectively.

Locations

The final list mixes well-known landmarks with relatively obscure locations. There appears to be no specific motivation for how they were chosen; when the travel writer Tim Moore searched the Waddingtons' company archives he did not uncover any relevant documentation.
The light blue set are all part of the London Inner Ring Road, this section of which opened in 1756 as the New Road. From west to east the road runs as Euston Road to King's Cross, then Pentonville Road to the Angel, Islington. The three streets in the pink set all converge at Trafalgar Square, and the red set are all adjacent to each other as part of the A4 road, a major road running west from Central London. The orange set is related to locations dealing with the police and law. The yellow set has an entertainment and nightlife-based theme; Leicester Square is known for cinemas and theatres, Coventry Street for clubs and restaurants, and Piccadilly for hotels. The streets in the green set have a background in retail and commercial properties.
The stations were the four London termini of the London and North Eastern Railway, principally King's Cross, which served Waddingtons' home town of Leeds. Original Monopoly boards manufactured before the Transport Act 1947 and the nationalisation of the railways use the name "L.N.E.R." on each title deed card; later boards showed "British Railways" instead.
Some elements of the US board were unchanged, leading to apparent idiosyncrasies. The police officer on Go To Jail is wearing a New York City Police Department hat, not a Metropolitan Police helmet, while the car on Free Parking has a Whitewall spare tyre, which was uncommon in the UK. The term Community Chest was a welfare support system present in the Great Depression and has not been used in Britain.

Colour	Image	Name	Value	House price	House price	Location	Notes
Brown		Old Kent Road	£60	£30	£813,000	SE1 SE14	The only location south of the River Thames; also the only one both outside and more than one tube stop away from the Circle line.
Brown		Whitechapel Road	£60	£30	£590,000	E1
Station		King's Cross station	£200	N/A	£782,000	NW1	Principal services: Glasgow Central,,,,,
Light blue		The Angel, Islington	£100	£50	£866,000	N1	The Angel is a former pub, not a street. It was a Lyons Corner House in 1935 and is reportedly where Watson and Phillips stopped for lunch.
Light blue		Euston Road	£100	£50	£1,080,000	W1 NW1
Light blue		Pentonville Road	£120	£60	£866,000	N1
Pink		Pall Mall	£140	£70	£1,380,000	SW1
Pink		Whitehall	£140	£70	£1,390,000	SW1
Pink		Northumberland Avenue	£160	£80	£1,280,000	SW1
Station		Marylebone station	£200	N/A	£1,100,000	NW1	Principal services:,,
Orange		Bow Street	£180	£90	£1,280,000	WC2
Orange		Great Marlborough Street	£180	£90	£2,480,000	W1	There is no actual Marlborough Street in this part of London; the square on the board was misnamed after the Marlborough Street Magistrates Court.
Orange		Vine Street	£200	£100	£1,700,000	W1	The shortest street on the board; it is long. Since Vine Street has no pubs, a typical Monopoly pub crawl visits the connecting Swallow Street instead.
Red		Strand	£220	£110	£2,160,000	WC2
Red		Fleet Street	£220	£110	£1,080,000	EC4
Red		Trafalgar Square	£240	£120	£1,280,000	WC2
Station		Fenchurch Street station	£200	N/A	£1,430,000	EC3	Principal services:
Yellow		Leicester Square	£260	£130	£1,280,000	WC2
Yellow		Coventry Street	£260	£130	£1,900,000	W1
Yellow		Piccadilly	£280	£140	£2,000,000	W1
Green		Regent Street	£300	£150	£1,700,000	W1
Green		Oxford Street	£300	£150	£1,300,000	W1
Green		Bond Street	£320	£160	£806,000	W1	There is no actual Bond Street; it is split into New Bond Street to the north and Old Bond Street to the south.
Station		Liverpool Street station	£200	N/A	£784,000	EC2	Principal services:,,,
Dark blue		Park Lane	£350	£175	£1,700,000	W1
Dark blue		Mayfair	£400	£200	£3,150,000	W1	Not a street, but a location in London. The most expensive square on the board, and in reality.