page_title: Wards of the City of London
section_title: Divisions and precincts
hierarchical_section_title: Wards of the City of London / Divisions and precincts
caption_attribution_description: English: Aldgate Ward with itâ€˜s divisions into Precincts and Parishes according to a new Survey 1754. B. Cole Source
context_page_description: The City of London is divided into 25 wards. The City is the historic core of the much wider metropolis of Greater London, with an ancient and sui generis form of local government, which avoided the many local government reforms elsewhere in the country in the 19th and 20th centuries. Unlike other modern English local authorities, the City of London Corporation has two council bodies: the now largely ceremonial Court of Aldermen and the Court of Common Council.
  The wards are a survival of the medieval governmental system that allowed very small areas to exist as self-governing units within the wider city. They are both electoral/political sub-divisions and permanent ceremonial, geographic and administrative entities within the City. They had their boundaries changed in 2003, and to a lesser extent in 2013, though the number of wards and their names did not change.
context_section_description: Some wards were, or are, divided into two divisions (these are given in the main ward list of this article) and where this happens a Deputy is appointed by the Alderman for each division, instead of the one for the whole ward. Additionally, all wards were further divided into precincts.
  The numbers and names of these precincts changed gradually over the centuries; precincts were named in various manners across the City's wards. In some wards they were named after localities or the numerous parishes (on which many precincts were based), in other wards they were simply given numbers. In those wards which were divided into divisions, the precincts were allocated to one division or another.
caption: A 1755 map of Aldgate, showing its precincts (six numbered and one named).
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