Dowgate

Ward of Dowgate

Location within the City
Ward of Dowgate
 Ward of Dowgate shown within Greater London
OS grid referenceTQ319812
Sui generis City of London
Administrative area Greater London
RegionLondon
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town LONDON
Postcode district EC4
Dialling code 020
Police City of London
Fire London
Ambulance London
EU Parliament London
UK ParliamentCities of London and Westminster
London Assembly City and East
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Coordinates: 51°30′40″N 0°05′20″W / 51.511°N 0.089°W / 51.511; -0.089

Dowgate is a small ward in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London. The ward is bounded to the east by Swan Lane and Laurence Poutney Lane, to the south by the River Thames, to the west by Cousin Lane and College Hill, and to the north by Cannon Street. It is where the Walbrook watercourse emptied into the Thames.

A number of City livery companies are quartered in the ward: the Worshipful Company of Dyers, Worshipful Company of Innholders, Worshipful Company of Skinners and Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers. There is one church: St. Michael Paternoster,[1] which houses 'The Mission to Seafarers'. The ward also contains Cannon Street station, which is on the site of a medieval steelyard, and on Upper Thames Street the only London Fire Brigade station within the City of London.

Politics

Dowgate is one of the 25 wards of the City of London, each electing an alderman to the Court of Aldermen and commoners (the City equivalent of a councillor) to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation. Only electors who are Freemen of the City of London are eligible to stand.

References

  1. Betjeman described it as
    A round colonnaded temple with round urns on it, a middle stage with curving corbels, more urns, round turret supporting a vane.

Bibliography

The City of London Churches Betjeman,J: Andover, Pitkin,1972 ISBN 0-85372-112-2

External links

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