Cripplegate

Cripplegate was a gate in the London Wall which once enclosed the City of London [1]. The Cripplegate gate lent its name to the Cripplegate ward of the City [1]. Cripplegate was rebuilt during the 1490s and was unhinged and fortified with a portcullis after Charles II became king in 1660 [1]. It was eventually demolished in 1760; much of Cripplegate was gone by the 19th century and only small fragments of it survive today [1].