Here's a map of the seven "gates" of London. The gates originated in Roman times and lasted through the medieval era until around 1760 when most of them were destroyed to make way for wider roads, none remain today although there are plaques situated at the original locations.
- Aldgate - On the old Roman road to Colchester, now in modern Essex
- Bishopsgate - On the road out to Shoreditch and on to Cambridge along Roman Ermine Street
- Moorgate - Not Roman but enhanced in 1415
- Cripplegate - Leading out toward Islington
- Aldersgate - Lead out to St Bartholomew's Abbey and London Charterhouse
- Newgate - The road to Oxford and the West
- Ludgate - The road towards the Roman town of Bath and the South West
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