Editing Ludgate (section)

==In literature==

* Ludd's Gate is mentioned in [[Bernard Cornwell]]'s novel ''Sword Song'', set during the reign of [[Alfred the Great]].
* Ludgate is mentioned in [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'', written around 1136. According to the [[pseudohistorical]] work<ref name="Wright">{{cite book|last=Wright|first=Neil|title=The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth|year=1984|publisher=Boydell and Brewer|location=Woodbridge, England|isbn=978-0-85991-641-7|pages=xvii–xviii}}</ref><ref>"...the ''Historia'' does not bear scrutiny as an authentic history and no scholar today would regard it as such.": Wright (1984: xxviii)</ref> the name comes from the Welsh King [[King Lud]], who he claims also gave his name to [[London]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/chapters/02-1st-ackro.html?ex=1225339200&en=b9c2c11ad6e1f435&ei=5070 |title=London |last=Ackroyd |first=Peter |work=The New York Times |access-date=2008-10-28 |date=2001-12-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415232705/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/chapters/02-1st-ackro.html?ex=1225339200&en=b9c2c11ad6e1f435&ei=5070 |archive-date=15 April 2009 }}</ref>
* Ludgate is mentioned in [[Maria McCann]]'s novel ''As Meat Loves Salt,'' set during the [[English Civil War]].
* Ludgate appears in [[Walter de la Mare]]'s poem "Up and Down", from ''Collected Poems 1901–1918'', Vol. II: Songs of Childhood, Peacock Pie, 1920.
* Ludgate appears in part III of [[Burnt Norton]], the first of [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Four Quartets]]''. It is the last named of the seven "gloomy hills of London".