page_title: Moorfields
hierarchical_section_title: Moorfields
caption_attribution_description: English: "Moore-gate" (Moorgate), a crop of a 1690 map of London with boxed illustrations of the gates of below plan of city (full map).
context_page_description: Moorfields was an open space, partly in the City of London, lying adjacent to – and outside – its northern wall, near the eponymous Moorgate. It was known for its marshy conditions, the result of the defensive wall acting like a dam, impeding the flow of the River Walbrook and its tributaries.
  Moorfields gives its name to the Moorfields Eye Hospital which occupied a site on the former fields from 1822–1899, and is still based close by, in the St Luke's area of the London Borough of Islington.
context_section_description: Moorfields was an open space, partly in the City of London, lying adjacent to – and outside – its northern wall, near the eponymous Moorgate. It was known for its marshy conditions, the result of the defensive wall acting like a dam, impeding the flow of the River Walbrook and its tributaries. 
  Moorfields gives its name to the Moorfields Eye Hospital which occupied a site on the former fields from 1822–1899, and is still based close by, in the St Luke's area of the London Borough of Islington.
caption: The Moorgate, last of the gates to be built in London's wall, took its name from the adjacent Moorfields.
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