Cultural Production in

Present Day

Bread Street (gbr)

United Kingdom

Icon of placeBread Street

Bread Street ranks 19,458th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Marsica, Klippan, Scania, and Sirishtnik. Memorable people born in Bread Street include John Milton. Bread Street has been the birth place of many writers. Bread Street is located in United Kingdom.

Bread Street is one of the 26 wards of the City of London, the name deriving from its principal street, which was anciently the city's bread market; already named Bredstrate for by the records it appears as that in 1302, Edward I announced that "the bakers of Bromley and Stratford-le-Bow [London], and ones already living on the street, were forbidden from selling bread from their own homes or bakeries, and could only do so from Bread Street." The street itself is just under 500 ft in length and now forms the eastern boundary of the ward after the 2003 boundary changes. Read more on Wikipedia

People

In 1608, Bread Street was the birth place of 1 globally memorable people, including John Milton.

People Born in Bread Street

Go to all Rankings

Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Bread Street were writers (1),  while most who died were .

Throughout history writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Bread Street, including John Milton.

Places

Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 0 globally memorable people born in Bread Street since 1700.