IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/W/PA
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WALBROOK WARD
Date(s): 1610-1941
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 11 production units.
Name of creator(s): Walbrook Ward | Corporation of London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The City of London was divided into wards for the purpose of government as early as Norman times. The wards had responsibility to keep the peace, supervise trade and oversee sanitation, and each ward has the right to elect an Alderman and Commoners to sit in the Court of Common Council.
Walbrook Ward lies between Cheap, Broad Street and Cornhill wards to the north, Langbourn and Candlewick wards to the east, Dowgate Ward to the south and Cordwainer and Vintry wards to the west. The ward contained four City parish churches: St Stephen Walbrook, St John the Baptist Walbrook, St Swithin London Stone and St Mary Bothaw.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Walbrook Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise Wardmote minutes and accounts, rate assessments and inhabitants lists, precepts and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records have been sorted into an order which reflects divisions between the different functions and operations of the organisation and its administration.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The archives of the ward have been deposited with the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library at various dates. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
There is a short printed history of the ward in J.C. Thornley's The Wards of the City of London, being a series of articles reprinted from the "Architect" (1919-20) pp 65-7. Other works available in the Printed Books Section of Guildhall Library and which may be useful include William Chancellor, Account of the several wards, precincts and parishes in the City of London (1787) and A.B. Beaven Aldermen of the City of London temp. Henry III-1912 (1908-13, 2 vols).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.