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'Farringdon Within' is a ward in the City of London, England.
The ward covers an area from Blackfriars, in the south, to St Bartholomew's Hospital in the north.^[1]
Originally known as the ''Ward of Anketill de Auvergne'',^[2] Farringdon was named for Sir Nicholas Farindon, who was appointed Lord Mayor for ''as long as it shall please him'' by Edward II.^[3] The ward had been in the Farindon family for 82 years at this time, his father, William Farindon preceding him as alderman in 1281, when he purchased the position. The father was Lord Mayor in 1281-2 and also warden of the Goldsmiths.^[4] During the reign of Edward I, as an alderman and Goldsmith, William Farindon was implicated in the arrest of English Jewry (some, fellow goldsmiths) for treason.^[5]
The ward was split into Farringdon Without and Farringdon Within in 1394.

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See also

★ Farringdon, London

★ Farringdon station

References

1. Corporation of London - Farringdon Within. Retrieved 20 October 2006.
2. 'Ward of Anketill de Auvergne', A Dictionary of London (1918). Date accessed: 27 October 2006.
3. Nicholas Farringdon served as Lord Mayor 1308-9, 1320-1, and again, 1323-4
4. 'The Lord Mayors of London', Old and New London: Volume 1 (1878), pp. 396-416. Date accessed: 27 October 2006.
5. 'Gregory's Chronicle: 1250-1367', The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the fifteenth century (1876), pp. 67-88. Date accessed: 27 October 2006.