Little Moorgate

Little Moorgate
   A postern or gate opposite Little Winchester Street leading into Moorfields (Strype, 1720, I. ii. 131-Rocque, 1746).
   Taken down (ed. 1755, I. 458.)

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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