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Moorgate

About Moorgate

Moorgate was one of the City of London's northern gates in its 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.

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Hundreds of environmental climate demonstrators picketed what they thought was the headquarters of Drax, a big energy and gas giant. Drax had moved out of that building over a year ago, and they instead chained themselves to a block in Moorgate which is now occupied by Europe's leading renewables generator. You can't win them all.

from 292: No Such Thing as a Blatant Plug for the Book of the Year 2019, 2019-10-24 at 00:08:58 ยท read transcript

Other times Moorgate came up

  1. I think it sounds quite nice. Yeah. Actually, there's still a pub in London called Old Dr. Butler's Head in Moorgate, which claims to be associated with him and that he sold his beer in that pub. Right.

    No Such Thing As Elizabeth I's Burnt Umber, 2026-04-02 ยท listen

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