Bread Street is one of the 25 wards of the City of London and takes its name from its principal street, which was anciently the bread market; for by the records it appears that in 1302, the bakers of London were ordered to sell no bread at their houses but in the open market at Bread Street. The road itself is just under 500 ft (153 m) in length and now forms the eastern boundary of the ward after boundary changes in 2003.
The modern ward extends much further west from Bread Street itself and includes Paternoster Square, a modern development to the north of St Paul's Cathedral and home of the London Stock Exchange since 2004. The City's only major shopping centre — One New Change — is located within the ward and was opened in 2010.
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