London Wall

Constructed around AD 200, London Wall was a massive defensive structure built by the occupying Romans around the City of London, forming an enclosed rectangle.

The three sides not facing the river were rebuilt and added to in the 17th-19th centuries and it's these remains that one can see today at the Barbican, at the road called 'London Wall' by the Museum of London, and at [Tower Hill]?. Clues as to where this wall went are place and street names ending in -gate:

City of London Dragon

Broadgate, however, is a modern invention, when Broad Street station was pulled down.

Note that there were gates in the Roman riverside wall, which include [Dowgate]? and [Billingsgate]?.

There is a London Wall walk, starting at [Tower Hill]?, and ending at [Blackfriars]?.

In ten places around the perimeter of the city these gates are guarded by distinctive statues of the heraldic dragons which hold the city's coat of arms.

Coming soon (when I have finished it --IvorW) the London Wall Pub Crawl

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