What is "bishopsgate"

Bishopsgate is one of the 25 wards of the City of London and also the name of a major road (part of the A10) between Gracechurch Street and Norton Folgate in the northeast corner of London's main financial district. Bishopsgate is named after one of the original eight gates in the London Wall. The site of this former gate is marked by a stone bishop's mitre, fixed high upon a building located at Bishopsgate's junction with Wormwood Street, by the gardens there and facing the Heron Tower.

Although tens of thousands of people commute to and work in the ward, it has a resident population of only 222 ( 2011).

Bishopsgate was a gate in the City wall of London.

It gives its name to:

• Bishopsgate, a street and ward in the City of London
• Bishopsgate railway station, a former railway station
• Bishopsgate (Low Level) railway station, a former railway station

• Bishopsgate, a suburb of the County of Brant, in Ontario