Bassishaw

Ward of Bassishaw
Location within the City
Ward of Bassishaw is located in Greater London
Ward of Bassishaw
Ward of Bassishaw
Location within Greater London
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Administrative areaGreater London
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLONDON
Postcode districtEC2
Dialling code020
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51°30′59″N 0°05′33″W / 51.51649°N 0.0926°W / 51.51649; -0.0926

Bassishaw is a ward in the City of London. Small, it is bounded by wards: Coleman Street, east; Cheap, south; Cripplegate, north; Aldersgate, west.

It first consisted of Basinghall Street with the courts and short side streets off it,[1] but since a boundary review in 2003 (after which the ward expanded into Cripplegate Within) it extends to streets further west, including Aldermanbury, Wood Street,[2] and, to the north, part of London Wall and St Alphage Garden.[3] The ward was historically the City's smallest.[4]

  1. ^ Book 2, Ch. 6: Bassishaw Ward, A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark (1773), pp. 549-51 accessed: 21 May 2007
  2. ^ 'Cripplegate, one of the 26 Wards of the City of London' Baddesley, J.J p46: London; Blades, East & Blades; 1921
  3. ^ City of London Corporation Archived 4 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Map of Bassishaw ward (2003 —)
  4. ^ A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831, p 134