Statistics for Seven Gates of London City

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Where?	Description	Answer	% Correct
Exit to Whitechapel and East End	Easternmost. Either means old gate or public gate (for all)	Aldgate	89%
Exit north toward Islington and Hackney	Medieval gate. Name derives from last area of open land in the city. Automatic stop method for trains at dead ends developed and named for crash at this tube station in 1975	Moorgate	56%
Exit onto what is now Holborn Viaduct	Became a notorious prison in 1200s.	Newgate	56%
Area destroyed in the Blitz. Now the site of the Barbican Centre	Previously near St Giles church, patron saint of cripples and lepers	Cripplegate	50%
Exit onto Ermine St, also known as the Old North Road	Northernmost. Often decorated with heads of criminals on spikes as a warning. Medieval gate adorned with effigies of two clergy who had rebuilt and maintained it	Bishopsgate	39%
Exit west along north bank over Fleet River onto Fleet Street	Westernmost. The road from the gate crossed the Fleet river to Fleet Street. Named either for a legendary king, or as a flood gate	Ludgate	39%
Exit north west toward Clerkenwell along St of same name	Gate named for Saxon Aeldred (although the Romans built it, later than the others in 350AD)	Aldersgate	33%