The short section between Bank junction and the church of St Mary Woolnoth is relatively wide, and carries two-way traffic including several bus routes, which continues along King William Street.

Lombard Street bears to the east and the remainder is much narrower (retaining its medieval character) and is one-way.

It later formed a plot of land granted by King Edward I (1272–1307) to the so-called Lombard bankers, merchants and lenders from northern Italy (a larger area than the modern Lombardy region).

In 1537 Sir Richard Gresham suggested to Lord Privy Seal, Thomas Cromwell that they "make a goodely Bursse in Lombert-streete, for marchuants to repayer unto".

Until the 1980s, most UK-based banks had their head offices in Lombard Street and historically it has been the London home for money lenders.

54 was the long-standing headquarters of Barclays before the financial institution moved in 2005 to One Churchill Place at Canary Wharf.

The expense of continuously expanding the post office site in the middle of the financial district, however, eventually necessitated a move to St Martins-le-Grand.

The City & South London Railway had obtained permission to demolish the 18th-century church and build a station (originally proposed to be named "Lombard Street") on the site.

After public protest, the company changed its plans to build only a sub-surface ticket hall and lift entrance in the crypt of the church.

Ball Alley (which also no longer exists) connected the church with Lombard Street and George Yard.

[8][9][10][11] Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market is a book by the economics philosopher Walter Bagehot, published in 1873.

Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language.

Karl Marx mentions Lombard Street in reference to credit and banking in Das Kapital.

[13] CSM Horace Crabtree, Military Medal Recipient, and family lived at a property formally designated No.