Gower’s Walk, E1
Whitechapel underground station, 1896
Gower’s Walk leads south from Commercial Road.

The ’pest fields’ of Gower’s Walk are close to what is now Aldgate East Tube station. Warehouses, since converted to flats, have been built on the site, but, according to Historic UK, the fields were once used to bury thousands of plague dead.

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