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assessments, of a rateable value of £62,241, and
returns twelve members to the Vestry.
Ward No. 4 (St. James') comprises all that
portion of the Parish within a line drawn from
Goswell Road, along the centre of Spencer Street,
Myddelton Street, Exmouth Street, Mount
Pleasant, to the boundary of the Parish, thence
along the line of the Old Fleet Ditch to the new
street opposite Clerkenwell Green, and thence
along Clerkenwell Green (north side of Sessions
House) and Aylesbury Street to St. John Street,
thence up the centre of St. John Street to Percival
Street, along the centre of Percival Street, and up
Goswell Road to Spencer Street. This Ward
contains 2,915 assessments, of a rateable value of
£122,677, and returns eighteen members to the
Vestry.
Ward No. 5 (St. John's) comprises all that
portion of the Parish which lies south of the
southern boundary of Ward 4, bounded on the
east by a line drawn along the centre of Goswell
Road from Percival Street to Clerkenwell Road,
on the west by the Old Fleet Ditch, and on the
south by a line drawn from Goswell Road down
Clerkenwell Road, thence irregularly, according to
the boundary ot the Parish, to the Old Fleet Ditch.
This Ward contains 1,573 assessments, of a rateable
value of £100,279, and returns fifteen members to
the Vestry.
Clerkenwell Detached. With regard to this
outlying portion of the Parish, the following
extract from Cromwell's History of Clerkenwell
will be of interest, especially to those unacquainted
with its history:—