Editing Moorgate (section)

{{about|the street and area in central London|the rail and tube station|Moorgate station|the village in Norfolk|Moorgate, Norfolk}}
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| official_name            = Moorgate
| map_type                 = Greater London
| country                  = England
| region                   = London
| london_borough           = City of London
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| post_town                = LONDON
| postcode_area            = EC
| postcode_district        = EC2
| dial_code                = 020
| constituency_westminster = [[Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Cities of London and Westminster]] 
}}
'''Moorgate''' was one of the [[City of London]], England's northern gates in its [[London Wall|defensive wall]], the last to be built. The gate took its name from the [[Moorfields]], an area of marshy land that lay immediately north of the wall.

The gate was demolished in 1762, but gave its name to a major street, ''Moorgate'', laid out in 1834. The area around the street and around [[Moorgate station]] is informally also referred to as ''Moorgate''. The Moorgate district is home to many financial institutions and has many notable historic and contemporary buildings.

Moorgate station was the site of the [[Moorgate tube crash]] of 1975, when a [[Northern City Line]] train failed to stop and hit a brick wall killing 43. This resulted in systems, known as [[Moorgate control]],  being installed on the Underground in order to stop trains at dead-ends.