Aldgate

Aldgate was a gateway through London Wall from the City of London to Whitechapel and the East End.

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In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the first book by an African American was published here after her owners could not find a publisher in Boston.

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Aldgate is a ward electing councillors to the Corporation of London.

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Stations near Aldgate:

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• Aldgate tube station
• Aldgate East tube station
Aldgate: See also ►



 

London Wall: London Wall was the defensive wall built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the river Thames in England....

City of London: : For London as a whole, see the main article London....

Whitechapel: Whitechapel is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street/Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south. Its heart is Whitechapel Road itself, named for a small chap...