Finsbury Square’s lost “Sodomites Walk”

A strip of land to the south of Finsbury Square in the City that’s today just a busy road was once far more notorious — as a space where gay men congregated.
This was Sodomites Walk.The exact location isn’t known, although usually described as being on the south side of Finsbury Square, and if you look at contemporary maps of the time, there was a marked boundary between Upper Moor Fields — which is Finsbury Square today — and a similar sized Middle Moor Fields to t