Langbourn

Ward of Langbourn
Location within the City
Ward of Langbourn  Ward of Langbourn shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ331809
Sui generis	City of London
Administrative area	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	EC3
Dialling code	020
Police	City of London
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
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UK Parliament	Cities of London and Westminster
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Coordinates: 51°30′43″N 0°05′06″W / 51.512°N 0.085°W / 51.512; -0.085

Langbourn is one of the 25 ancient wards of the City of London. It reputedly is named after a buried stream in the vicinity.^[1]

St. Edmund's on Lombard Street.

St. Mary Woolnoth on the corner of Lombard Street and King William Street.

It is a small ward; a long thin area, running in a west-east direction. Historically, Lombard Street and Fenchurch Street were the principal streets, forming the cores of the ward's West and East divisions respectively. Boundary changes in 2003 and 2013 have resulted in most of the northern sides of these streets remaining in Langbourn, whilst the southern sides are now largely in the wards of Candlewick, Bridge, Billingsgate and Tower. Three changes to the boundaries of Langbourn took place in 2013; all of the southern side of Lombard Street, with the notable exception of the guild - or ward - church of St Mary Woolnoth, is in Candlewick (from 2003 to 2013 Candlewick extended only to Abchurch Lane); the ward of Walbrook now includes the northern side of Lombard Street from number 68 to Bank junction. In turn, Langbourn expanded by taking another part of Leadenhall Market, from Lime Street ward.

The ward at present borders eight other wards (Walbrook, Candlewick, Bridge, Billingsgate, Tower, Aldgate, Lime Street, and Cornhill); historically no other City ward bordered so many neighbours.^[2]

The ward encompasses a large area of Leadenhall Market^[3] and two historic churches: St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Edmund's. Historically, the ward also contained four other churches: St Nicholas Acons (destroyed in the Great Fire 1666), All Hallows Staining (demolished 1870), St. Dionis Backchurch (1878), and All Hallows Lombard Street (1939).^[4] It has its own club for ward officials, City workers and residents^[5] and newsletter.^[6]

Politics

Langbourn is one of 25 wards of the City of London, electing an alderman to the Court of Aldermen and 3 Councilmen (the City equivalent of a councillor) to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation. Only electors who are a Freeman of the City of London are eligible to stand.

References

External links

• Map of Early Modern London: Langbourn Ward - Historical Map and Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's London (Scholarly)

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