Newgate

From the 13th-c to 1902, the main prison of the City of London, whence many convicted criminals were taken to Tyburn for hanging. It became a generic description for a prison. In the 16th-c several Roman Catholic martyrs, as well as the Protestant martyr, Anne Askew, were imprisoned there before being burnt at the stake at Smithfield. It was finally demolished in 1902 to make way for the Central Criminal Court.

Newgate was a gate in the west of London Wall round the City of London.

Newgate Street is just north of St Paul's Cathedral. To the west it leads into the Holborn Viaduct, and to the east it becomes Cheapside.