Moorgate

Moorgate was one of the old minor gates of the old London Wall surrounding the City of London, the historic and financial centre of Greater London in the United Kingdom. The name survives as the name of a major street in the heart of the City connecting it with Islington, and in the name of a mainline terminus and London Underground train station. Several major investment and commercial banks congregate in this area. There is a mixture of historic and contemporary office buildings, including Moorhouse, which was designed by Foster and Partners, and stands at the corner of Moorgate and London Wall.

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Moorgate is named after Moorfields, one of the last pieces of open land in the City. A wooden gate was first built at the site in 1415. The wooden gate was damaged in the Great Fire of London, and was replaced by a stone gate in 1672. The stone gate was demolished in 1761.

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Moorgate station is best known for an incident on February 28, 1975, when a Northern Line tube train terminating at Moorgate failed to stop and crashed into a brick wall beyond a platform, killing 43 people. This resulted in automatic systems for stopping trains at dead-ends being installed on all dead-ends on the Underground. These systems are known as Moorgate control.

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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....

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