Bread Street
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Bread Street is one of the 26 wards of the City of London, the name deriving from its principal street, which was anciently the city's bread market; already named Bredstrate (to at least 1180)[1] for by the records it appears as that in 1302,[2] Edward I announced that "the bakers of Bromley and Stratford-le-Bow [London], and ones already living on the street, were forbidden from selling bread from their own homes or bakeries, and could only do so from Bread Street."[1][3] The street itself is just under 500 ft (153 m) in length and now forms the eastern boundary of the ward after the 2003 boundary changes.
Ward of Bread Street | |
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Paternoster Square is located within Bread Street Ward. | |
Location within the City | |
Location within Greater London | |
OS grid reference | TQ319812 |
Sui generis | |
Administrative area | Greater London |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LONDON |
Postcode district | EC4 |
Dialling code | 020 |
Police | City of London |
Fire | London |
Ambulance | London |
UK Parliament | |
London Assembly | |
51.5144°N 0.0966°W / 51.5144; -0.0966 |
The modern ward extends much further west from Bread Street itself and includes Paternoster Square, a modern development to the north of St Paul's Cathedral and home of the London Stock Exchange since 2004.[4] The city's major shopping centre which opened in 2010 is at One New Change within Bread Street Ward.