London’s Pocket Parks: Moorgate Corner, EC2
This is a recently revamped corner park near Moorgate tube station, sitting next to the site of one of the ancient gates through the Roman Wall.The site of the pocket park was developed by the 1600s as a small cluster of houses and workshops surrounded by roads, and for the next few centuries, very little changed. The buildings were torn down and rebuilt at times, but the layout didn’t change.
Faden’s 1819 revision of R Horwood map
It would probably look the same today, but for WWII
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