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Aldgate () was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London.

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  • Etymology
  • The gate
  • Aldgate locality
  • Geography
  • History
  • Aldgate Pump
  • Aldgate Square
  • Public artworks
  • Archaeological finds
  • Ward of Aldgate
  • Transport
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Aldgate () was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London.

The gate gave its name to Aldgate High Street, the first stretch of the A11 road, that takes that name as it passes through the ancient, extramural Portsoken Ward of the City of London.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aldgate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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