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Where did the Great Fire of London start on 2 September 1666?
Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane caught fire at about 1 a.m. on Sunday 2 September. The Lord Mayor refused to authorise firebreak demolitions. Four days later 13,200 houses and 87 churches were ash.
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The Bakery Fire on Pudding Lane That Burned Four-Fifths of the City of London in Four Days and Killed Only Six Documented People A fire began at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane in the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666. By the time it was extinguished on 6 September it had destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, and St Paul's Cathedral across approximately 175 hectares — about four-fifths of the City of London. The documented death toll is six. The actual toll was probably higher but cannot now be reconstructed.
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