United Kingdom · GBP · London
LSE historical stock data
1,284 listings: 1,284 stocks and 0 ETFs. Daily history back to first listing and minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.
LSE trading day, Monday to Friday
FTSE 100, FTSE 250, priced in GBP, settling T+2.
- 1801
- Founded in London
- 1,700
- Listed companies
- 1,284
- Symbol pages on DataCedar
LSE key facts
- London Stock Exchange is a United Kingdom stock exchange in London, founded in 1801, trading in GBP; its headline indices are FTSE 100 and FTSE 250.
- LSE trades 08:00 to 16:30 GMT/BST, closing auction to 16:35, Monday to Friday, settling T+2 (T+1 planned for October 2027); it lists about 1,700 listed companies on the Main Market and AIM (2025).
- DataCedar covers 1,284 LSE listings: 1,284 stocks and 0 ETFs, each with a price history page and an API call.
- Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.
- 0 of the 1,284 LSE pages carry enough traded history to be listed in the sitemap.
About LSE
- Full name
- London Stock Exchange
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1801
- Operator
- London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
- Regulator
- Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
- Trading hours
- 08:00 to 16:30 GMT/BST, closing auction to 16:35
- Trading days
- Monday to Friday
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Currency
- GBP
- Settlement
- T+2 (T+1 planned for October 2027)
- Ticker convention
- Three or four letter codes (HSBA, SHEL, AZN); prices quoted in pence
- Headline indices
- FTSE 100, FTSE 250
- Listed
- about 1,700 listed companies on the Main Market and AIM (2025)
- Market capitalisation
- about USD 3.5 trillion (2025)
- Traces its origins to Jonathan's Coffee House in 1698; formally constituted in 1801.
- AIM, its growth market since 1995, has fewer listing requirements than the Main Market.
- The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 are the benchmarks; share prices are quoted in pence, not pounds.
- LSEG licenses historical data; daily closing prices are widely redistributed.
LSE symbols A to Z
Every listing on the venue, grouped by first letter. Each symbol has its own price history page.
LSE historical data on DataCedar
DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for each of the 1,284 LSE listings, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture began for that symbol. Prices come adjusted for splits and dividends, and raw.
0 of the 1,284 pages carry enough traded history to be listed in the sitemap; the rest exist, are linked from the A to Z pages and are marked noindex until they qualify. Read the coverage note, see pricing for the plan windows, or tell us which symbols you need.
LSE data by API
One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange. timeframe is 1Min, 5Min, 15Min, 1Hour or 1Day; adjustment is raw, split, dividend or all; start and end bound the window. See the bars endpoint.
curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/1SN/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"Get the dataLSE data, four ways in
Every LSE symbol has a page you can read for free; the series behind it is served by the API under a key.
LSE
Most traded
The thirty names with the highest traded value over the last thirty sessions.
1,284 pages
Symbols A to Z
Every listing on the venue, one page each, grouped by first letter.
REST and MCP
The bars endpoint
One call per symbol at 1Min to 1Day, adjusted or raw, cursor paged.
No card
Free key
One year of daily bars on every symbol; paid plans add the full history and minute bars.
Common questions
LSE historical data
