• Clerkenwell is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Islington. The ward has existed since the creation of the borough on 1 April 1965 and was first...
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    Clerkenwell (/ˈklɑːrkənwɛl/) is an area of central London, England. Clerkenwell was an ancient parish from the medieval period onwards, and now forms...
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    Inn in 1979. Ludford was created a life peer as Baroness Ludford, of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 30 September 1997, after serving...
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    Clerkenwell (old) Prison, also known as the Clerkenwell House of Detention or Middlesex House of Detention was a prison in Clerkenwell, London, opened...
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  • Brook ward. Three more candidates received over 20% of the vote in the local elections in London, in Heaton and Gooshays wards in Havering, Clerkenwell ward...
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    Metropolitan Borough included Finsbury (also known as St Luke's) and Clerkenwell. The area should not be confused with Finsbury Park, a public space roughly...
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    The Clerkenwell Vestry was the vestry of Clerkenwell from c.16th century until 1900. The vestry had growing secular authority over the parish with the...
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  • Farringdon station. Historically the district corresponded to southern Clerkenwell and the small parish of St Sepulchre Middlesex. The area's name is a...
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  • The final election to the Clerkenwell Vestry took place on Tuesday 16 May 1899. Vestrymen were elected for three years (to go out of office in 1902)....
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    which runs north from the former gate towards Clerkenwell. The street was wholly part of Aldersgate Without ward until a short section further north was renamed...
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    Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018. "Clerkenwell ward". www.islington.gov.uk. Local council elections 2018. Archived from...
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    House of Correction and Clerkenwell Gaol and informally known as the Steel, was a prison in the Mount Pleasant area of Clerkenwell, London. Founded in the...
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  • to by-elections in between the 1990 and 1994 elections. A seat in Clerkenwell ward was lost to the Lib Dems in 1991 and another was lost in Quadrant to...
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    Islington North. 1974–1983: The London Borough of Islington wards of Barnsbury, Bunhill, Clerkenwell, Pentonville, St Mary, St Peter, and Thornhill. 1983–2010:...
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    and was Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries 1581–1587. He built mansions in Woodbridge, Ipswich and Clerkenwell, and was at different times Steward...
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  • area of Clerkenwell which also takes its name from Farringdon Road Farringdon Within, a ward in the City of London Farringdon Without, a ward in the City...
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    people wanting to move out of the cramped City of London and industrial Clerkenwell. The area is close to the city, and had strong local trade in its position...
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    Pentonville developed in the northwestern edge of the ancient parish of Clerkenwell on the New Road. It is named after Henry Penton, the developer of the...
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  • Brentford Lock (3) Wards from 1 April 1965 (first election 7 May 1964) to 4 May 1978: Barnsbury (3) Bunhill (2) Canonbury (4) Clerkenwell (3) Highbury (4)...
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    Workhouse (redirect from Casual ward)
    viewed as a form of transportation. While getting parish apprentices from Clerkenwell, Samuel Oldknow's agent reported how some parents came "crying to beg...
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    and night routes N1, N8, N19, N38, N41, N55, N68 and N171. Bloomsbury Clerkenwell Smithfield Charing Cross Soho Covent Garden St. Giles Piccadilly In the...
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    2011. "Clerkenwell ward" (PDF). Islington Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2011. "Finsbury Park ward" (PDF)...
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    station, and Blackfriars Bridge. Northbound, the route passes through Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury, King's Cross, and Kentish Town. The route southbound carries...
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  • 1271 by the priory of St John at Clerkenwell after which the manor's name fell into disuse. There was a revision of ward boundaries in Islington in 2022...
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    Louis Wain (category People from Clerkenwell)
    his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave...
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    reference to Clerkenwell. The Latin motto chosen by the borough was Altiora Petimus or We seek higher things. The borough was divided into eleven wards for elections:...
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  • St Peter's and Canalside is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Islington. The ward was first used in the 2022 elections. It returns three councillors...
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  • Cubitt's Calthorpe Estate near Gray's Inn Road in Coldbath Fields in Clerkenwell, Islington against the Reform Act 1832. PC Robert Culley was stabbed...
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    pillory. Ward was publican at the King's Head Tavern, next to Gray's Inn, London, from 1699. In 1712 he opened an alehouse near Clerkenwell Green. His...
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    Catholic manifestation of faith starting from St Peter's RC Church on Clerkenwell Road. It was from Saffron Hill that Darby Sabini operated his criminal...
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