Pudding Lane

Pudding Lane looking northwards from the junction with Monument Street.

Pudding Lane is a street in the City of London and formerly the location of Thomas Farriner's bakery where the Great Fire of London began in 1666. The lane is located off Eastcheap, near London Bridge and the Monument to the Great Fire of London.

According to the chronicler John Stow, it is allegedly named after the "puddings" (a medieval word for entrails and organs) which would fall from the carts coming down the lane from the butchers in Eastcheap as they headed for the waste barges on the River Thames.^[1] A plaque on the wall of a building called Faryners House, on Pudding Lane, records the site of the start of the fire. The sign was presented by the Worshipful Company of Bakers in 1986.

The nearest London Underground station is Monument, a short distance to the west. The closest mainline railway stations are at Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street and Cannon Street.

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Coordinates: 51°30′37″N 0°05′07″W / 51.5102°N 0.0853°W / 51.5102; -0.0853

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