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Lombard Street, London - Definition

Lombard Street is a road in the City of London. It runs north-west from the corner of the Bank of England, where it meets a major intersection including Poultry, King William Street, and Threadneedle Street, and runs south-east to Gracechurch Street.

It is the site of the headquarters of Barclays Bank, and St Mary Woolnoth.

The closest tube stations are Bank and Monument.

Gregory De Rokesley, 8 times Mayor of London between 1274-1281 and 1285 lived at number 72 Lombard St. Alexander Pope, poet was born at number 32 Lombard Street in 1688.

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