Editing Cripplegate (section)

===History of the ward===
The wards of London appear to have taken shape in the 11th century, before the [[Norman Conquest]]. Their administrative, judicial and military purpose made them equivalent to [[Hundred (county division)|Hundreds]] in the countryside. The primary purpose of wards like Cripplegate, which included a gate, appears to have been the defence of the gate,<ref>London 800-1216: The Shaping of a City, Brook and Keir Ch 7</ref> as gates were the weakest points in any fortification.

''Cripplegate Without'' was, in the 11th, 12th and possibly later centuries, part of an area outside the northern wall called the [[Finsbury#Soke of Cripplegate|Soke of Cripplegate]], held by the church of [[St. Martin's Le Grand]].<ref>Archaeological Excavations at Moor House, Jeremy Haslam p48</ref>

In 1068, a burial site, where [[Jewin Street]] now stands, was the only place in England where Jews were permitted to be buried. Those living elsewhere in the country were forced, at great expense and inconvenience, to bring their dead there.<ref>Light for the last days (1888), H. Grattan Guinness D.D., FRAS></ref>

The philosopher [[Thomas More]], writer of [[Utopia]], was born on [[Milk Street, London|Milk Street]] in 1478.
 
In 1555, [[John Gresham]] endowed the new [[Gresham's School]] in Norfolk with three tenements in the parish of St. Giles Without Cripplegate, including 'The White Hind' and 'The Peacock'.<ref>[[William Herbert (antiquarian)|Herbert, William]], ''The History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London'' (London, Wm Herbert, 1836) [{{GBurl|BgHAAAAQAAJ|page=80}} pp. 80-81] at books.google.co.uk</ref>

During the Second World War, the Cripplegate area, a centre of the rag trade,<ref name=Guardian62415>{{cite news|author1=Tom Bolton|title=From Cripplegate to Agar Town: inside London's vanished neighbourhoods |url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jun/24/london-vanished-neighbourhoods-cripplegate-agar-town-limehouse-chinatown |access-date=24 June 2015|work=The Guardian|date=24 June 2015|quote=by the second world war, Cripplegate had become "Fire Island", the highest-insurance-risk area in London, occupied by rag trade warehouses packed with tinder-box stock.}}</ref> was virtually destroyed and by 1951 the resident population of the City stood at only 5,324, of whom 48 lived in Cripplegate. Discussions began in 1952 about the future of the area, and the decision to build new residential properties was taken by the [[Court of Common Council]] on 19 September 1957. The area was reopened as the [[Barbican Estate]] in 1969.

[[Tranter's Hotel]] was located at 6–9 [[Bridgewater Square]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alondoninheritance.com/|title=A London Inheritance|website=A London Inheritance}}</ref> in a Georgian building with 60 rooms available,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/blacksguidetoed00firgoog/blacksguidetoed00firgoog_djvu.txt|title = Black's Guide to Edinburgh|year = 1903|publisher = A. and C. Black}}</ref> not far from today's [[Beech Street (London)|Beech Street]], before being destroyed by the [[World War II]] bombs.

It was advertised in a number of [[periodical literature|periodicals]] and magazines between 1887 and 1919 as a very centrally located, family and commercial, [[Temperance movement in the United Kingdom|temperance]]-friendly hotel, convenient for [[St Paul's Cathedral]] and [[Barbican station|Aldersgate station]], for business and pleasure.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TUMsAAAAMAAJ&q=tranter%27s+hotel+an+almanack+for+the+year+of+our+lord&pg=PA779 | title=An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord| year=1848| last1=Whitaker| first1=Joseph}}</ref>