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Dowgate

Coordinates:51°30′40″N0°05′20″W / 51.511°N 0.089°W /51.511; -0.089
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Ward of the City of London

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Ward of Dowgate is located in Greater London
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51°30′40″N0°05′20″W / 51.511°N 0.089°W /51.511; -0.089

Dowgate, also referred to asDowngate andDownegate,[1] is a smallward in theCity of London, the historic and financial centre of London, England. The ward is bounded to the east by Swan Lane and Laurence Poutney Lane, to the south by theRiver Thames, to the west by Cousin Lane and College Hill, and to the north byCannon Street. It is where the "lost"Walbrook watercourse emptied into the Thames.

A number of Citylivery companies are quartered in the ward: theWorshipful Company of Dyers,Worshipful Company of Innholders,Worshipful Company of Skinners andWorshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers. There is one church,St. Michael Paternoster,[a] where, in addition to its local and congregational causes, theAnglican Mission to Seafarers convenes and fundraises. The ward also containsCannon Street station, which is on the site of theSteelyard (a mediaeval trading port of theHanseatic League), and Dowgate Fire Station onUpper Thames Street, the onlyLondon Fire Brigade station within the City of London.[2]

Politics

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Dowgate is one ofthe 25 wards of theCity of London, each electing analderman to theCourt of Aldermen and commoners (the City equivalent of acouncillor) to theCourt of Common Council of theCity of London Corporation. Only electors who areFreemen of the City of London are eligible to stand.

Cannon Street station, on the River Thames

Notes

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  1. ^Described byJohn Betjeman as

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

References

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  1. ^Dowgate Ward, Map of Early Modern London, last updated 5 May 2022, accessed 5 June 2022
  2. ^London Fire Brigade,The City of London, accessed 5 June 2022

Bibliography

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

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