Further, Pudding Lane was close to the river.

By Sunday afternoon, 18 hours after the alarm was raised in Pudding Lane, the fire had become a raging firestorm that created its own weather.

He later changed his story to say that he had started the fire at the bakery in Pudding Lane.

Until boundary changes in 2003, the ward included Pudding Lane, where in 1666 the Great Fire of London began.

The church was badly damaged in the Great Fire of 1666 which began only a few feet away in Pudding Lane.

The rear of the church overlooked Pudding Lane, where the fire of London started.

The public blamed Catholic conspirators for the fire, although it had actually started in a bakehouse in Pudding Lane.

The fire was started by a baker's oven in Pudding Lane and it burned for three days without check.

Although the buildings dividing the upper and lower markets were demolished in the 1930s, one of these connecting passages survives as Pudding Lane.

The Great Fire of London of 1666 started at a bakery in Pudding Lane.