Bulwark Gate

Bulwark Gate
   At Tower Hill. Two signs, the Crooked Billet and the Lion Rampant, described as at the Bulwarke Gate, 1649-72 (Burn, 35).
   Perhaps one of the Tower Gates or a gate in the Wall.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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