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Moorgate was demolished with most of the other London city wall gates in 1761/2, and the resulting stone was sold for £166 to the City of London Corporation to support the starlings of the newly widened centre arch of the London Bridge. Little Moorgate was a postern opposite Little Winchester Street leading into Moorfields.
Moorgate was built by upgrading a postern built in 1415, and enlarged in 1472 and 1511. The gate remained poorly connected as there was no direct approach road from the south until 1846, long after the gate and wall were demolished. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, refugees from the fire evacuated to Moorfields and set up temporary camps ...
Moorgate is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station on Moorgate in the City of London.Main line railway services for Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage are operated by Great Northern, while the London Underground station is served by the Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan and Northern lines.
Chartered Accountants' Hall is a Grade II* listed building located at 1 Moorgate Place in the City of London. It is the headquarters of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW). The Hall is one of the richest examples of late Victorian architecture in the City and has been praised for its seamless integration of ...
A statue of the English Romantic poet John Keats is located in Moorfields, Moorgate in the City of London. It was sculpted by Martin Jennings and depicts a larger than life-size copy of a life mask of Keats taken aged 21. Keats was the son of an ostler at the nearby inn, The Swan and Hoop. [1]
Guildhall is a municipal building in the Moorgate area of the City of London, England.It is off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap.The current building dates from the 15th century; however documentary evidence suggests that a guildhall had existed at the site since at least the early 12th century.
The extension to Aldersgate Street and Moorgate Street (now Barbican and Moorgate) opened on 23 December 1865, [12] and all four lines were open on 1 March 1866. [13] The parallel tracks from King's Cross to Farringdon, first used by a GNR freight train on 27 January 1868, [14] entered a second Clerkenwell tunnel before dropping at a gradient of 1 in 100, passing under the Ray Street Gridiron ...
St Mary Moorfields is a Roman Catholic church in Eldon Street near Moorgate, on a site previously known as Moorfields. It is the only Catholic church in the City of London . [ 1 ] Prior to a 1994 boundary change, the church was in the Borough of Hackney , such that there were no Catholic churches in the City.