Identificatie
Soort entiteit
Geauthoriseerde naam
Portsoken Ward , Corporation of London
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Gestandaardiseerde naamvorm(en) volgens andere regels.
Aandere naamsvormen
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Beschrijving
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Geschiedenis
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.
The easternmost of the City of London's twenty-six wards, lying outside the City wall and now wholly within the parish of St Botolph Aldgate. The ward contained one City parish church: St Botolph Aldgate.