COLEMAN STREET WARD

   One of the twenty-six wards of the City, adjoining Broad Street Ward east and south, Bassishaw Ward west, and Cheap Ward south, extending north to the City boundary.

   Earliest mention: "Warda de Colemannestte," 3 Ed. I. (Rot. Hund. I. 411).

   Also called "Ward of Robert de Meldeburn" (ib.). See Haconis (Warda).

   Named after the street of Coleman Street, which intersects the ward north and south (S. 278).

   Churches in the ward : St. Stephen ; St. Olave, Old Jewry ; part of St. Margaret Lothbury.

   Interesting localities and buildings : Old Jewry ; Moorfields ; Bank of England.

   See Wards.