Editing Newgate (section)

==Communications and surrounding area==
Newgate Street, today part of the [[A40 road|A40 London to Fishguard route]], is mostly located within the city wall, leading west from [[Cheapside]] to the site of the old gate, and then continuing onto [[Holborn Viaduct]] at the point where the Old Bailey thoroughfare joins to the south and [[Giltspur Street]] to the north. A notable discovery here was a Roman tile inscribed with a disgruntled comment that "Austalis has been going off on his own for 13 days".<ref name="pevsner" />{{rp|272}} The [[Roman road]] continued along [[High Holborn]] and [[Oxford Street]], via the [[Devil's Highway (Roman Britain)|Devil's Highway]] to [[Silchester]] and [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]<ref name="pevsner">{{cite book |first=Nikolaus |last=Pevsner |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1973 |title=London: Volume 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 |isbn=978-0300096248 |publisher=Yale University Press}}</ref>{{rp|31}}

To the north of the street are the public gardens around the ruins of [[Christ Church Greyfriars]] (bombed during World War II) on the site of a medieval Franciscan monastery. To the south is [[Paternoster Square]] leading towards [[St Paul's Cathedral]].