Cripplegate
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Cripplegate was a gate in the London Wall which once enclosed the City of London, England.
The Ward of Cripplegate Without
Cripplegate plaque
Jewin Crescent painting at the Imperial War Museum
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, Engl
Cripplegate
…Cripplegate was a gate in the London Wall which once enclosed the City of London, England. The Cripplegate gate lent its name to the Cripplegate ward of the City, which encompasses the area…
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.