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Aldgate High Street, EC3N

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Once the route to one of the six original gates of the Wall of London, Aldgate High Street has an important place in medieval London’s history.

North side of Aldgate High Street, c.1905
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Aldgate High Street was closely located to where the eastern part of the original Roman Wall, and in the medieval period, it led to town of Colchester in Essex.

Because of its connection to places outside London, Aldgate High Street was vital to the geography of medieval London. Unfortunately, any archaeological remnants of the Roman gate have been obscured, and there is no evidence of its precise location, but is believed to have straddled Aldgate High Street, the gate’s northern edge beneath the pavement of current address of 1-2 Aldgate High Street, and its southern edge beneath 88-89 Aldgate High Street.

There is some dispute over the etymology and meaning of "Aldgate," but various historians have provided some theories. The earliest record of Aldgate has it listed as East Gate, which makes sense, given its location as the easternmost gate on the Wall.

Another interpretation of its current name, "Ale Gate," indicates that an ale-house may have been nearby, and yet another, "All Gate," may have pointed to that area’s openness to all. Even though the name Aldgate may point to a variety or origins, all of these etymologies do seem to corroborate Aldgate High Street’s history of being a center for weary travelers to London, who may have stayed at an inn or have a pint of ale on this street. Most scholars seem to agree that the most likely meaning of "Aldgate," however, is "Old Gate," which gives us an indication Aldgate High Street’s antiquity, and its long history dating back to Roman times.

Aldgate High Street’s close proximity to Aldgate helped to cement it as a centre for visitors. The street was once home to inns and taverns to accommodate the travellers coming in and out of London through Aldgate. As is the case with many other parts of London, there are few remnants of buildings or sites actually dating back to the medieval period. The only buildings on Aldgate High Street that date to the period before the Great Fire are a series of buildings at the northern end of Aldgate High Street, one of which is a pub called Hoop & Grapes. This pub is incredibly unique, as it was built in 1593 and was one of the only wooden buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1666. Today, the front of the building looks much like it did in the Tudor period, possessing a few medieval characteristics such as the jetties on its second level and its characteristic Tudor, timber frame. The cellar also supposedly dates back to the thirteenth century.

Main source: Medieval London: Introduction · Medieval London
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North side of Aldgate High Street, c.1905

North side of Aldgate High Street, c.1905
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East Flank, SE18 East Flank is a road in the SE18 postcode area
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East Tenter Street, E1 East Tenter Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
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Fenchurch Avenue, EC3M Fenchurch Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
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Fenchurch Buildings, EC3M Fenchurch Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
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Fenchurch Place, EC3M Fenchurch Place is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
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Fenchurch Street, EC3M Fenchurch Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
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Flower & Dean Walk, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
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Goodman Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
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Goodman’s Yard, E1 Goodman’s Yard is a street between Minories and Mansell Street.
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Goodmans Yard, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
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Gowers Walk, E1 Gowers Walk is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
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Hopetown Street, E1 This is a street in the E1 postcode area
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Houndsditch, E1 A street within the EC3A postcode
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Houndsditch, EC3A Houndsditch is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
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Ibex House, EC3N Residential block
Ibex House, EC3N
Idol Lane, EC3R Idol Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.
Idol Lane, EC3R
India Street, EC3N India Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
India Street, EC3N
Irongate House, EC3A Residential block
Irongate House, EC3A
Jewry Street, EC3N Jewry Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
Jewry Street, EC3N
John Fisher Street, E1 A street within the SE1 postcode
John Fisher Street, E1
John Sessions Square, E1 John Sessions Square lies off of Alie Street.
John Sessions Square, E1
Kent and Essex Yard, E1 Kent and Essex Yard ran north of Whitechapel High Street, close to the west side of Commercial Street.
Kent and Essex Yard, E1
Kings Arms Court, E1 Kings Arms Court is a road in the E1 postcode area
Kings Arms Court, E1
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Leadenhall Market, EC3M
Leadenhall Place, EC3M Leadenhall Place is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
Leadenhall Place, EC3M
Leadenhall Place, EC3V Leadenhall Place is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.
Leadenhall Place, EC3V
Leadenhall Street, EC3M Leadenhall Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
Leadenhall Street, EC3M
Leadenhall Street, EC3N Leadenhall Street is a road in the EC3N postcode area
Leadenhall Street, EC3N
Leadenhall Street, EC3P Leadenhall Street - historic home to both the East India Company and Lloyd’s of London.
Leadenhall Street, EC3P
Leadenhall Street, EC3V Leadenhall Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.
Leadenhall Street, EC3V
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Leman Street, E1
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Leyden Street, E1
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Library Square, E1
Lime Street, E17 A street within the EC3M postcode
Lime Street, E17
Lime Street, EC3M Lime Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
Lime Street, EC3M
Little Somerset Street, E1 Little Somerset Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Little Somerset Street, E1
Liverpool Street, EC2M Liverpool Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Liverpool Street, EC2M
Lloyd?s Avenue, EC3N Lloyd?s Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
Lloyd?s Avenue, EC3N
Lloyds Avenue, EC3N Lloyds Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
Lloyds Avenue, EC3N
Loft House 46a Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Loft House 46a Street, E1
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London Street, EC3R
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Manningtree Street, E1
Mansell Street, E1 Mansell Street runs north-south on the City of London border.
Mansell Street, E1
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Middlesex Street, E1
Middlesex Street, EC3A Middlesex Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
Middlesex Street, EC3A
Mill Yard, E1 Mill Yard is a road in the E1 postcode area
Mill Yard, E1
Mincing Lane, EC3R Mincing Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.
Mincing Lane, EC3R
Minories, EC3N Minories is one of the old streets of the City of London.
Minories, EC3N
Minster Court, EC3R Minster Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.
Minster Court, EC3R
Minsters Pavement, EC3A Minsters Pavement is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
Minsters Pavement, EC3A
Mitre Avenue, E17 Mitre Avenue is one of the streets of London in the E17 postal area.
Mitre Avenue, E17
Mitre Square, EC3A Mitre Square is a small square in the City of London.
Mitre Square, EC3A
Mitre Street, EC3A Mitre Street connects Creechurch Lane with the Aldgate.
Mitre Street, EC3A
Munster Court, SW6 Munster Court is a road in the SW6 postcode area
Munster Court, SW6
Muscovy Street, EC3R Muscovy Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.
Muscovy Street, EC3R
Nathaniel Close, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Nathaniel Close, E1
New Drum Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
New Drum Street, E1
New Goulston Street, E1 New Goulston Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
New Goulston Street, E1
New London Street, EC3R New London Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.
New London Street, EC3R
New Street, EC2M New Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
New Street, EC2M
North Tenter Street, E1 North Tenter Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
North Tenter Street, E1
Old Broad Street, EC2M Old Broad Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Old Broad Street, EC2M
Old Castle Street, E1 Old Castle Street runs north-south from Wentworth Street to Whitechapel High Street, the southern section of which incorporates the former Castle Alley, murder site of Ripper victim Alice McKenzie.
Old Castle Street, E1
Osborn Street, E1 Osborn Street is a short road leading from Whitechapel Road to the crossroads with Brick Lane, Wentworth Street and Old Montague Street.
Osborn Street, E1
Osborne Street, E1 Osborne Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Osborne Street, E1
Osbourne Street, E1 Osbourne Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Osbourne Street, E1
Pepys Street, EC3N Pepys Street links Seething Lane in the west to Cooper’s Row in the east.
Pepys Street, EC3N
Petticoat Square, E1 A street within the postcode
Petticoat Square, E1
Petticoat Tower, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Petticoat Tower, E1
Plantain Gardens, E11 A street within the EC3V postcode
Plantain Gardens, E11
Plantain Gardens, E11 A street within the EC3V postcode
Plantain Gardens, E11
Plantation Lane, EC3R Plantation Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.
Plantation Lane, EC3R
Plantation Place Plantation Place takes its name from a previous Plantation House, once the recognised centre of the tea trade.
Plantation Place
Pomell Way, E1 Pomell Way is a road in the E1 postcode area
Pomell Way, E1
Portsoken Street, E1 Portsoken Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Portsoken Street, E1
Prescot Street, E1 Prescot Street was named for Rebecca Prescott, wife of William Leman.
Prescot Street, E1
Prescott Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Prescott Street, E1
Railway Arches, EC3N Railway Arches is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
Railway Arches, EC3N
Riga Mews, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Riga Mews, E1
Rood Lane, EC3M Rood Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
Rood Lane, EC3M
Royal Mint Place, E1 Royal Mint Place is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Royal Mint Place, E1
Royal Mint Street, E1 Royal Mint Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Royal Mint Street, E1
Rupert Street, E1 Rupert Street was situated to the east of Leman Street.
Rupert Street, E1
Saint Mary Axe, EC3A Saint Mary Axe is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
Saint Mary Axe, EC3A
Saracen’s Head Yard, EC3N Saracen’s Head Yard was to the south of Aldgate.
Saracen’s Head Yard, EC3N
Savage Gardens, EC3N Savage Gardens connects Crutched Friars in the north to Trinity Square in the south, crossing Pepys Street.
Savage Gardens, EC3N
Scarborough Street, E1 This is a street in the E1 postcode area
Scarborough Street, E1
Seething Lane, EC3N Seething Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
Seething Lane, EC3N
Shorter Street, E1 Shorter Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Shorter Street, E1
Shorter Street, EC3N Shorter Street is a road in the EC3N postcode area
Shorter Street, EC3N
South Tenter Street, E1 South Tenter Street is a road in the E1 postcode area
South Tenter Street, E1
St Botolph Street, EC3A St Botolph Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
St Botolph Street, EC3A
St Clare House, EC3N Residential block
St Clare House, EC3N
St Clare Street, EC3N St Clare Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
St Clare Street, EC3N
St Helen’s Place, EC3A St Helen’s Place runs east from Bishopsgate.
St Helen’s Place, EC3A
St James’s Passage, EC3A St James’s Passage was formerly known as Church Passage.
St James’s Passage, EC3A
St James’s Place, EC3A St James Place was an open square, formerly Broad Court, which held a daily market that sold fruits of various kinds.
St James’s Place, EC3A
St Margaret Pattens Church, EC3M St Margaret Pattens Church is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.
St Margaret Pattens Church, EC3M
St Mark Street, E1 St Mark Street was built on the old Goodman’s Fields.
St Mark Street, E1
St Mary At Hill, EC3R St Mary At Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.
St Mary At Hill, EC3R
St Mary Axe, EC3A St Mary Axe is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
St Mary Axe, EC3A
St. Botolph Street, EC3A St. Botolph Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
St. Botolph Street, EC3A
St. Mary’s Grove, N1 A street within the EC3A postcode
St. Mary’s Grove, N1
Staple Hall, EC3A Staple Hall is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
Staple Hall, EC3A
Stone House Court, EC3A Stone House Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
Stone House Court, EC3A
Stoney Lane, E1 Stoney Lane is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Stoney Lane, E1
Strype Street, E1 John Strype, who became an antiquary, historian and parson was the son of a Huguenot weaver and born here in 1643.
Strype Street, E1
Sugar House, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Sugar House, E1
The Queen?s Steps, EC3N The Queen?s Steps is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
The Queen?s Steps, EC3N
The Queen’s Steps, EC3N The Queen’s Steps is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
The Queen’s Steps, EC3N
Thrawl Street, E1 Originally built by Henry Thrall (or Thrale) c.1656, Thrawl Street ran east-west from Brick Lane as far as George Street across a former tenter field owned by the Fossan brothers, Thomas and Lewis.
Thrawl Street, E1
Toynbee Street, E1 Toynbee Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Toynbee Street, E1
Trinity Square, EC3N Trinity Square is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
Trinity Square, EC3N
Undershaft, EC2N Undershaft is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.
Undershaft, EC2N
Undershaft, EC3A Undershaft is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
Undershaft, EC3A
Undershaft, EC3P Undershaft is a road in the EC3P postcode area
Undershaft, EC3P
Union Court, EC2N Union Court is an alleyway off of Broad Street.
Union Court, EC2N
Victoria Avenue, EC2M This is a street in the EC2M postcode area
Victoria Avenue, EC2M
Vine Street, EC3N Vine Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.
Vine Street, EC3N
Wentworth Street, E1 Wentworth Street runs east-west from the junction of Brick Lane, Osborn Street and Old Montague Street to Middlesex Street, forming part of the boundary between Spitalfields and St Mary’s Whitechapel.
Wentworth Street, E1
West Tenter Street, E1 West Tenter Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
West Tenter Street, E1
White Church Lane, E1 White Church Lane is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
White Church Lane, E1
White Church Passage, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
White Church Passage, E1
White Kennet Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
White Kennet Street, E1
White Kennett Street, E1 White Kennett Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
White Kennett Street, E1
White Kennett Street, EC3A White Kennett Street was named after a Bishop of Peterborough.
White Kennett Street, EC3A
Whitechapel High Street, E1 Whitechapel High Street runs approximately west-east from Aldgate High Street to Whitechapel Road and is designated as part of the A11.
Whitechapel High Street, E1
Whittington Avenue, EC3A Whittington Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
Whittington Avenue, EC3A
Whittington Avenue, EC3V Whittington Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.
Whittington Avenue, EC3V
Wormwood Street, EC2N Wormwood Street refers to the wormwood plant which used to grow on the London Wall and in other areas of wasteland in the City.
Wormwood Street, EC2N
Wrestlers Court, EC3A Wrestlers Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.
Wrestlers Court, EC3A

Aldgate

Aldgate was one of the massive gates which defended the City from Roman times until 1760.

Stow wrote in his Survey of London of 1598 that ’It hath had two pair of gates, though now but one; the hooks remaineth yet. Also there hath been two port-closes; the one of them remai

The gate stood at the corner of the modern Duke’s Place and was always an obstacle to traffic. It was rebuilt between 1108–47, again in 1215, and reconstructed completely between 1607-09. The gate was finally removed in 1761; it was temporarily re-erected at Bethnal Green.

While he was a customs official, from 1374 until 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer occupied apartments above the gate. The Augustinians priory of Holy Trinity Aldgate was founded by Matilda, the wife of King Henry I, in 1108, on ground just inside the gate.

Within Aldgate ward, Jews settled from 1181, until their expulsion in 1290 by King Edward I. The area became known as Old Jewry. Jews were welcomed back by Oliver Cromwell, and once again they settled in the area, founding London’s oldest synagogue at Bevis Marks in 1698.

At Aldgate’s junction with Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street is the site of the old Aldgate Pump. From 1700 it was from this point that distances were measured into the counties of Essex and Middlesex. The original pump was taken down in 1876, and a ’faux’ pump and drinking fountain was erected several yards to the west of the original; it was supplied by water from the New River. In ancient deeds, Alegate Well is mentioned, adjoining the City wall, and this may have been the source (of water) for the original pump. A section of the remains of Holy Trinity Priory can be seen through a window in a nearby office block, on the north side.

The area around the large traffic roundabout to the east of where the gate stood is also often referred to as Aldgate (although strictly, this is Aldgate High Street, and extends a short distance into Whitechapel; it is also known occasionally by the epithet ’Gardiners’ Corner’, in honour of a long-disappeared department store).

Aldgate underground station was opened on 18 November 1876 with the southbound extension to Tower Hill opening on 25 September 1882, completing the (Inner) Circle. Services from Aldgate originally ran far further west than they do now, reaching as far as Richmond, and trains also used to run from Aldgate to Hammersmith (the Hammersmith & City line now bypasses the station). It became the terminus of the Metropolitan line only in 1941. Before that, Metropolitan trains had continued on to the southern termini of the East London Line.

Platforms 1 and 4 at Aldgate are the only two platforms on the network to be served exclusively by the Circle line.


LOCAL PHOTOS
Wentworth Street (1901)
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Whitechapel High Street, 1899
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46 Aldgate High Street
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Black Lion Yard looking north, 1961.
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Duke Street, looking south, 1941.
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Osborn Street in the early 1900s
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St James' Place, 1884
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Boar
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