Aldgate is bounded on the east by the line of the former City wall, on the south by Tower-street ward and on the west and north by Langbourn, Limestreet, and Bishopsgate wards.
Aldgate is one of 25 wards in the City of London. Each ward electing an Alderman to the Court of Aldermen and Commoners (the City equivalent of a Councillor) to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation. Only electors who are Freemen of the City of London are eligible to stand.
The ward remains a principal thoroughfare through the City of London, each splitting from the fifty-metre street named Aldgate that connects to Aldgate High Street.
While he was a customs official, from 1374 until 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer occupied apartments above the gate.
The Augustinian Priory of Holy Trinity Aldgate was founded by Queen Matilda, the wife of Henry I, in 1108, on ground just inside the gate.
The ward is dominated by the insurance industry, and prominent buildings include the Gherkin (2005) in St Mary Axe, Lloyds Register and the London Metal Exchange.
Also within the ward are three churches; St Botolph’s Aldgate also St Katherine Cree (1631) and St Andrew Undershaft (1532).
In addition to entertainment the post code is also home to large amounts of office space, business and employment opportunities.The nearest London Underground station is Aldgate on the Circle and Metropolitan Lines.
Places of interest: The Gherkin, The Augustinian Priory.