Widegate Street

Widegate Street
   East out of Middlesex Street, at No. 118, to Sandy Row, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
   First mention Hatton, 1708.
   Former names "Whitegate Alley" (O. and M. 1677). " (Wide - or White) Gate "-Street (Strype, 1720, I. ii. 108).
   Until about 1902 it ran west into Bishopsgate in the line of the new portion of Middlesex Street. New Street constructed 1889-96.
   The earlier form of the name in O. and M. suggests a gate at the end of the alley that could be closed at night, these gates being very common at that time, or there may have been a sign of that name in or adjacent to the street.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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