Aldgate
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Aldgate was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London.
Print of the Aldgate, around 1609
Yorkist defenders sally from Aldgate, 1471
Aldgate House, Bethnal Green, around 1808
Aldgate Pump, at the junction of Aldgate, Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street
London Wall
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The London Wall is a defensive wall first built by the Romans around the strategically important port town of Londinium in c. AD 200, as well as the name of a modern street in the City of London, England.
London Roman Wall – surviving section by Tower Hill gardens cross-section
A surviving fragment of the original 3rd-century Roman Wall in Cooper's Row near Tower Hill
Bastion 12, which is near the Barbican Estate, stands on Roman foundations with an upper structure of 13th-century masonry.
Yorkist forces attack the Lancastrians during the siege of London, 12–15 May 1471.