Wards of the City of London
![A wooden notice board (each ward has at least one) displaying the Alderman, the Common Councilmen (one of whom is the Alderman's Deputy), and the clerks of that ward.](/Images/godic/202412/18/Ward_Coleman_Street_board_London1033.jpg")
![In some places in the City, a plaque will state the local ward's name.](/Images/godic/202412/18/Ward_Coleman_Street_plaque_London1034.jpg")
![A 1720 map of Bishopsgate ward, clearly showing London Wall; the street and ward to the north is regarded as being](/Images/godic/202412/18/Bishopsgate-Street_ward_17201034.jpg")
![A map of the wards as they were in the late 19th century. Farringdon Within and Tower wards each had a detached part (no detached parts exist from 2003).](/Images/godic/202412/18/City_of_London_Ward_Map,_1870.svg1034.png")
The City of London (also known simply as "the City") constitutes 25 wards. The City is the historic core of the much wider metropolis of Greater London, with an ancient and sui generis form of local government, which avoided the many reforms enacted to local government elsewhere in the country in the 19th and 20th centuries. Unlike other modern-day English local authorities, the City of London Corporation has two council bodies: the now largely ceremonial Court of Aldermen and the Court of Common Council.