Moorfields
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This article is about the open space in London. For the area of Bristol, see Moorfields, Bristol. For the underground station in Liverpool, see Moorfields railway station.
"Moorfield" redirects here. For the American lawyer, see Moorfield Storey.
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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 as a dam, impeding the flow of the River Walbrook and its tributaries.[1]
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.[2]