Get to three houses, because of the huge increase in income between two and three, and stop at four houses, because there are only 32 in each game, and you want to stop your opponents building. More to the point, perhaps, Monopoly is celebrating its 75th anniversary around the world this year – and who are we to poop the party? There are, though, at least 121 streets within the neighbourhood of that name, nearly all of them sheening with that perennial London favourite: ready money. If you want to know what these are, below you can see a list of all Monopoly properties on the UK board. Chic restaurants and grimy boozers stand feet from each other, and loft-dwellers share the streets with council tenants (this was one of the earliest areas of London to have municipal housing).

The only property south of the river is Old Kent Road, while Whitechapel Road is the sole nod to east London. Based on the 1906 game The Landlord’s Game, the original US version of Monopoly was created in 1933, which launched Parker Brothers distribution of a version in 1935. As a Londoner, it’s perfectly logical that Park Lane and Mayfair are expensive areas while Whitechapel is relatively cheap. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.The joke inspired the satirical Cracked article, If Monopoly Was Honest, as well as a slew of internet memes. Admittedly while this might be a slight exaggeration, the game has been the centre of a long-running joke about feuds and hurt feelings between competitive players.

When a monopoly is owned, the owning player can build houses or hotels on it and, if unimproved, receive double rent from it. The list above only includes the streets, not all of the squares on the board as there’s also stations, utilities, chance and community chest, the Go space, Free Parking, Go to Jail and Jail. To find out more about the locations on the London Monopoly board, I recommend that you take a look at the book Do Not Pass Go by Tim Waddington. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Conversely, the expensive properties on the fourth side of the board are least likely to be landed on, because they come after Go To Jail. We are standing in front of the stretch of three great members' clubs – the Athenaeum, the Travellers and the Reform, names that summon a bygone age.

We pass through Shoreditch and Hoxton, where the influx of artists and creative types ratcheted neglected areas into fashionability, and I wonder if there were equivalents in interwar London. Whitechapel is a distant memory, for this oddly characterless strip is where the rulers of the British Empire came to rest. Many of these use their own unique version of the Monopoly board with local street names from that country.Since Vine Street has no pubs, a typical Monopoly pub crawl visits the connecting Swallow Street instead.

You also take in many other notable tourist sites such as Tower Bridge, Tower of London, St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace.What White and I plan to do is roll our way round the board to discover how some of the areas of the London Monopoly board have changed in the intervening three-quarters of a century.