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Aldersgate, the Glossary

Aldersgate is a Ward of the City of London, England, named after one of the northern gates in the London Wall which once enclosed the City.^[1]

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A1 in London

The A1 in London is the southern part of the A1 road.

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen).

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Aldersgate Day

Aldersgate Day, or Wesley Day, is an anniversary observed by Methodist Christians on 24 May.

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Aldgate

Aldgate was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London. Aldersgate and Aldgate are London Wall and its gates and wards of the City of London.

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Angel Street, London

Angel Street, formerly known as Angel Alley, Angel Court, and Angell Street, is a street in the City of London that runs between King Edward Street in the west and St Martin's Le Grand in the east.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London, England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. Aldersgate and Barbican Centre are Barbican Estate.

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Barbican Estate

The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes, and houses in central London, England, within the City of London.

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Barbican is a London Underground station situated near the Barbican Estate, on the edge of the ward of Farringdon Within, in the City of London in Central London. Aldersgate and Barbican tube station are Barbican Estate.

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Beech Street (London)

Beech Street is a street in the City of London, England.

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Bishop of London

The bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.

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Botolph of Thorney

Botolph of Thorney (also called Botolph, Botulph or Botulf; later known as Saint Botolph; died around 680) was an English abbot and saint.

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Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)

Cities of London and Westminster (known as City of London and Westminster South from 1974 to 1997) is a constituency returning a single Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons in the United Kingdom Parliament.

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City gate

A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall.

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City of London

The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.

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City of London Corporation

The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the local authority of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the United Kingdom's financial sector.

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City of London swords

The City of London Swords are five two-handed ceremonial swords belonging to the Corporation of London, namely the Mourning (or Black) Sword, the Pearl Sword, the State (or Sunday) Sword, the Old Bailey Sword and the Mansion House Justice Room Sword.

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City Road

City Road or The City Road is a road that runs through central London.

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Clerkenwell

Clerkenwell is an area of central London, England.

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Collegiate church

In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons, a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, headed by a dignitary bearing a title which may vary, such as dean or provost.

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Commoner

A commoner, also known as the common man, commoners, the common people or the masses, was in earlier use an ordinary person in a community or nation who did not have any significant social status, especially a member of neither royalty, nobility, nor any part of the aristocracy.

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Councillor

A councillor, alternatively councilman, councilwoman, councilperson, or council member, is someone who sits on, votes in, or is a member of, a council.

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Court of Aldermen

The Court of Aldermen forms part of the senior governance of the City of London Corporation.

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Court of Common Council

The Court of Common Council is the primary decision-making body of the City of London Corporation.

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Cripplegate

Cripplegate was a gate in the London Wall which once enclosed the City of London, England. Aldersgate and Cripplegate are Barbican Estate, London Wall and its gates and wards of the City of London.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Elizabeth Crofts

Elizabeth Crofts was an English imposter known for her involvement in one event in 1554 known as "the bird in the wall".

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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Fann Street

Fann Street is a street in the City of London, England.

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Fortifications of London

The fortifications of London are extensive and mostly well maintained, though many of the City of London's fortifications and defences were dismantled in the 17th and 18th century. Aldersgate and fortifications of London are London Wall and its gates.

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Fortune Playhouse

The Fortune Playhouse was an historic theatre in London. Aldersgate and Fortune Playhouse are Barbican Estate.

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Freedom of the City of London

The Freedom of the City of London started around 1237 as the status of a 'free man' or 'citizen', protected by the charter of the City of London and not under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord.

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Fulham

Fulham is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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General Post Office, London

The General Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand (later known as GPO East) was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910, the headquarters of the General Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and England's first purpose-built post office.

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Goswell Road

Goswell Road, in Central London, is an end part of the A1.

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Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Inigo Jones

Inigo Jones (possibly born Ynyr Jones; 15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant architect in England in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Blytone

John Blytone was the first known sword-bearer of the City of London, a position he resigned in 1395.

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John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale

John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, KG, PC (24 May 1616 – 24 August 1682) was a Scottish statesman and peer.

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John Wesley

John Wesley (2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.

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Kingdom of Kent

The Kingdom of the Kentish (Cantwara rīce; Regnum Cantuariorum), today referred to as the Kingdom of Kent, was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Liberty (division)

A liberty was an English unit originating in the Middle Ages, traditionally defined as an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e., an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands).

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List of demolished buildings and structures in London

This list of demolished buildings and structures in London includes buildings, structures and urban scenes of particular architectural and historical interest, scenic buildings which are preserved in old photographs, prints and paintings, but which have been demolished or were destroyed by bombing in World War II.

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Little Britain, London

Little Britain is a street in the City of London running from St. Martin's Le Grand in the east to West Smithfield in the west.

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Livery company

A livery company is a type of guild or professional association that originated in medieval times in London, England.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Wall

The London Wall is a defensive wall first built by the Romans around the strategically important port town of Londinium in AD 200, as well as the name of a modern street in the City of London, England. Aldersgate and London Wall are London Wall and its gates.

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Lord Mayor of London

The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation.

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Mary Sutton, Countess of Home

Mary (Dudley) Sutton, Countess of Home (1586–1644), was a landowner, living in England and Scotland.

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Moravian Church

The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Jednota bratrská) founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.

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Museum of London

The London Museum (formerly known as the Museum of London) is a museum in London, covering the history of the city from prehistoric to modern times, with a particular focus on social history. Aldersgate and museum of London are Barbican Estate.

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Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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Periodical literature

A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule.

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Portsoken

Portsoken, traditionally referred to with the definite article as the Portsoken, is one of the City of London, England's 25 ancient wards, which are still used for local elections. Aldersgate and Portsoken are wards of the City of London.

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Post Office Limited

Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of postal and non-postal related products including postage stamps, banking, insurance, bureau de change and identity verification services to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 post office branches.

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Postman's Park

Postman's Park is a public garden in central London, a short distance north of St Paul's Cathedral.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent.

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Sanctuary

A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine.

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Sorting office

A sorting office or processing and distribution center (P&DC; name used by the United States Postal Service (USPS)) is any location where postal operators bring mail after collection for sorting into batches for delivery to the addressee, which may be a direct delivery or sent onwards to another regional or local sorting office, or to another postal administration.

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St Bartholomew's Hospital

St Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London.

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St Botolph's, Aldersgate

St.

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St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London, England, the seat of the Bishop of London.

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St. Martin's Le Grand

St.

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The Alchemist (play)

The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.

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Thomas Flatman

Thomas Flatman (21 February 1635 – 8 December 1688) was an English poet and miniature painter.

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Wards of the City of London

The City of London (also known simply as "the City") is divided into 25 wards.

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Wesley's Chapel

Wesley's Chapel (originally the City Road Chapel) is a Methodist church situated in the St Luke's area in the south of the London Borough of Islington.

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Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)

The Wesleyan Methodist Church (also named the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion) was the majority Methodist movement in England following its split from the Church of England after the death of John Wesley and the appearance of parallel Methodist movements.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldersgate

Also known as Aldersgate Street, London House, Aldersgate.

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Barbican Estate

History of Methodism

London Wall and its gates

Wards of the City of London

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