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Description: | London Wall is a street on the edge of the City which runs along, as its name suggests, the site of the ancient city walls. The walls, originally built by the Romans, surrounded the City for the best part of two millennia. Although almost entirely gone now, the walls remained in large areas until only a few hundred years ago. The walls had seven gates along their length (clockwise from West to East): Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Bishopsgate, and Aldgate. These names survive today as the names of thoroughfares and areas in the City and its environs. This photograph shows London Wall, the thoroughfare, long after the actual walls disappeared. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Environment Cityscape | Temporal: | 1971 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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