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St Michael, St Michael Wood Street, Church of England
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St Michael,
St Michael Wood Street
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The church has/had a graveyard. The burials include many prisoners from the nearby Wood Street Compter or Counter prison.
A breif history of the church is provided in Walter Thornbury's Old and New London: Volume 1 (London, 1878), pp. 364-374 under , 'Cheapside: Northern tributaries, Wood Street.' This is available on British History Online [accessed 3 August 2022].
Images of the original parish registers are available on Ancestry's London parish records collection.
It is located near TQ323814 (Lat/Lon 51.515985, -0.09469). You can see this on maps provided by:
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