Cripplegate (site of) (London)

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Cripplegate stood at the north end of what is now Wood Street at the junction of St Alphage Gardens. It had already been built by the time London Wall was erected. It was once part of a Roman Fort and believes to date AD 120.

The name Cripplegate probably comes from the Anglo-Saxon word of crepel, which means a covered way or underground passage. A popular local story also has it that when St Edmund was taken from the city to be buried in the town of Bury (now called Bury St Edmunds in suffolk) many cripples were said to be cured simply by touching his body as it passed.

The 8 gates to the city of London are:

1. Cripplegate
2. Aldgate
3. Aldersgate
4. Ludgate
5. Bishopsgate
6. Moorgate
7. Newgate
8. Traitors Gate