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Newgate at the west end of Newgate Street was one of the historic seven gates of London Wall
London Wall

London Wall was the defensive wall built by the Ancient Romes around Roman London, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in England....
 round the City of London
City of London

The City of London is a geographically small city status in the United Kingdom within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew....
 and one of the six which date back to Roman times. From it a Roman road led west to Silchester
Silchester

Silchester is a village and civil parish in the England county of Hampshire. It is best known for the adjacent archaeological site and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, which was first occupied by the Romans in about AD 45 and includes what is thought to be the best-preserved Roman Empire wall in Great Britain....
. Excavations in 1875, 1903 and 1909 revealed the Roman structure and showed that it consisted of a double roadway between two square flanking guardroom towers. From the twelfth century, at least, the gate was used as a prison for debtors and felons.






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Newgate at the west end of Newgate Street was one of the historic seven gates of London Wall
London Wall

London Wall was the defensive wall built by the Ancient Romes around Roman London, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in England....
 round the City of London
City of London

The City of London is a geographically small city status in the United Kingdom within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew....
 and one of the six which date back to Roman times. From it a Roman road led west to Silchester
Silchester

Silchester is a village and civil parish in the England county of Hampshire. It is best known for the adjacent archaeological site and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, which was first occupied by the Romans in about AD 45 and includes what is thought to be the best-preserved Roman Empire wall in Great Britain....
. Excavations in 1875, 1903 and 1909 revealed the Roman structure and showed that it consisted of a double roadway between two square flanking guardroom towers. From the twelfth century, at least, the gate was used as a prison for debtors and felons. This, the infamous Newgate prison
Newgate Prison

Newgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate and Old Bailey just inside the City of London. It was originally located at the site of a gate in the Ancient Rome London Wall....
, was later extended to the south on the site of the modern Old Bailey
Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court in England, commonly known as the Old Bailey, is a court building in central London, one of a number housing the Crown Court....
. The gate was demolished in 1767.

Newgate Street is mostly located within the City Wall, leading west from Cheapside
Cheapside

Cheapside is a street in Cheap of the City of London that links Newgate with the junction of Queen Victoria Street, Cornhill, London, Threadneedle Street, Princes Street, Lombard Street, London and King William Street ....
 to the site of the gate, and then joining with Holborn Viaduct
Holborn Viaduct

Holborn Viaduct is a bridge in London and the name of the street which crosses it . It links Holborn, via Holborn Circus, with Newgate Street in the City of London, passing over Farringdon Street and the now subterranean River Fleet....
 at the point where the Old Bailey
Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court in England, commonly known as the Old Bailey, is a court building in central London, one of a number housing the Crown Court....
 thoroughfare joins to the south and Giltspur Street
Giltspur Street

Giltspur Street is a street in Smithfield, London, London, running north-south from the junction of Newgate Street, Holborn Viaduct, and Old Bailey up to West Smithfield, and it is bounded to the east by St Bartholomew's Hospital ....
 to the north. A notable discovery here was a Roman tile inscribed with a disgruntled comment that "Austalis has been going off on his own for 13 days".

To the north of the street are the ruins of Christ Church Greyfriars
Christ Church Greyfriars

Christ Church Greyfriars, also known as Christ Church Newgate, was an Anglican church located on Newgate Street, opposite St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London....
 on the site of a medieval Franciscan monastery. To the south is Paternoster Square
Paternoster Square

Paternoster Square is an urban development, owned by the Mitsubishi Estate Co., next to St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England. In 1942 the area, which takes its name from Paternoster Row, centre of the London publishing trade, was devastated by aerial bombardment in The Blitz during World War II....
 leading towards St Paul's cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral is the Anglicanism cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building dates from the 17th century and is generally reckoned to be London's fifth St Paul's Cathedral, although the number is higher if every major medieval reconstruction is counted as a new cathedr...
.

See also

  • Fortifications of London
    Fortifications of London

    The fortifications of London are extensive and mostly well maintained, though many of Inner London's fortifications and defences were dismantled in the 17th and 18th century....
  • Newgate Prison
    Newgate Prison

    Newgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate and Old Bailey just inside the City of London. It was originally located at the site of a gate in the Ancient Rome London Wall....
  • City gate
    City Gate

    Moshe Aviv Tower , is a skyscraper located in the demarcated area of the Diamond Exchange District on Jabotinsky Road in northern Ramat Gan, Israel....
  • City wall


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