Cripplegate

Cripplegate was a in the London Wall which once enclosed the , England. The Cripplegate gate lent its name to the Cripplegate ward of the City, which encompasses the area where the gate and the former city wall once stood.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: ward of the City of London
  • Also known as: “Ward of Cripplegate”
  • Inscription: “Site of Cripplegate Demolished 1760”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Barbican Arts Centre and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Arts center
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The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the of the , England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. is situated 650 feet north of Cripplegate.

University
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The is a music and drama school located in the , . Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts. is situated 540 feet north of Cripplegate.

Church
Photo: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0.
St Paul's Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Paul in London, is an Anglican cathedral in , the seat of the Bishop of London. is situated 2,000 feet southwest of Cripplegate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barbican Estate and Finsbury.

Quarter
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The , or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central , England, within the .

Suburb
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is a district of North-, forming the southeastern part of the . It borders the . The Manor of is first recorded as Vinisbir and means "manor of a man called Finn".

Neighborhood
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The is a 1950s council housing complex in the . It was built on the northern edge of the City, on a site devastated by bombing during the Second World War.

Cripplegate

Latitude
51.51814° or 51° 31′ 5″ north
Longitude
-0.09314° or 0° 5′ 35″ west
Population
2,780
Open location code
9C3XGW94+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4189748689
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q1619586
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Cripplegate” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Կրիպլգեյթ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kriplqeyt”
  • Belarusian: “Крыплгейт”
  • Catalan: “Cripplegate”
  • Chinese: “克里普尔门”
  • Chinese: “克里波門”
  • Chinese: “跛子門”
  • Chinese: “跛子门”
  • Czech: “Cripplegate”
  • Dutch: “Cripplegate”
  • Estonian: “Cripplegate”
  • French: “Cripplegate”
  • Georgian: “კრიპლგეიტი”
  • Hebrew: “קריפלגייט”
  • Irish: “Barda Cripplegate”
  • Italian: “Cripplegate”
  • Japanese: “クリップルゲート”
  • Japanese: “クリプルゲート”
  • Latin: “Porta Membris Captorum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cripplegate”
  • Norwegian: “Cripplegate”
  • Persian: “کریپلگیت”
  • Russian: “Криплгейт”
  • Slovenian: “Cripplegate”
  • Spanish: “Cripplegate”
  • Swedish: “Cripplegate”
  • Tajik: “Криплгейт”
  • Urdu: “کریپل گیٹ اسٹریٹ”
  • Welsh: “Ward Cripplegate”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Cripple Gate (site of) and Salters‘ Garden.

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