Fleet Street

a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.

Origin of Fleet Street

1375–1425; late Middle English Flete Strete, after a nearby stream; see fleet³

Whitefriars, in Fleet-street, appears to have been one of the most notorious places in London.

Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present |Thomas Miller
A publisher in Fleet-street, named Lowndes, was more complaisant.

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Vol. 1 (of 3) |Fanny Burney
Butterworth, the bookseller in Fleet-street; he who is a sort of metropolitan of the methodists, is one of the Members for Dover.

Rural Rides |William Cobbett
B—— at this time occupied chambers in Mitre-court, Fleet-street.

Hazlitt on English Literature |Jacob Zeitlin

It appears that he had been originally a modeller, and kept a little shop in Fleet-street, where he sold plaster-of-Paris images.

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 |Camden Pelham

Fleet Street

a street in central London in which many newspaper offices were formerly situated

British journalism or journalists collectively