Editing Finsbury (section)

==History==
===Growth===
Urbanisation was slow, despite the building of a new gate in the adjacent [[London Wall]], [[Moorgate]], in 1511. In 1665 the [[Bunhill Fields]] burial ground was opened in the area.
[[File:Moorgate Hollar.PNG|thumb|Moorgate was built in 1511, the last gate to be created in the originally Roman wall. The creation of the gate encouraged development to the north of the wall.]]

Building on Finsbury Fields began in the late 17th century.  The [[St Luke Old Street (church)|parish church of St Luke's]] was built in 1732–33, development was accelerated by the building of the [[City Road]] in 1765, and at the end of the 18th century a residential suburb was built with its centre at [[Finsbury Square]].<ref name=encyc>Weinreb, B. and Hibbert, C. (eds.) (1983) ''The London Encyclopaedia''. Macmillan {{ISBN|0-333-57688-8}}</ref> [[Moorfields|Little and Lower Moorfields]] remained open until [[Finsbury Circus]] was developed after 1815.

===Military history===
[[File:Armoury House.JPG|thumb|Finsbury Barracks]]
In 1641 the [[Honourable Artillery Company]] moved to Finsbury, where it still remains. The [[City of London Yeomanry]],  founded at the time of the [[Second Boer War]], made its headquarters in Finsbury Square.

In 1862 Finsbury gave its name to a volunteer infantry unit &mdash; the [[Finsbury Rifles]], which recruited in both Finsbury and Clerkenwell, and saw distinguished service in several conflicts.

===Medical district===
Before [[Harley Street]] rose to prominence, Finsbury was London's principal medical district. In the mid-19th century it was home to a large number of hospitals,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Black |first1=Nick |title=The lost hospitals of St Luke's |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=2007 |volume=100 |issue=3 |pages=125–129 |doi=10.1177/014107680710000310 |pmid=17339307 |pmc=1809165 }}</ref> but now only Moorfields Eye Hospital remains.
[[File:Finsbury moorfields eye hospital 1.jpg|thumb|Finsbury Moorfields Eye Hospital]]

The area included the following hospitals:
* [[Royal Chest Hospital|Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest]]
* [[Moorfields Eye Hospital|Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields)]]
* [[St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics]]
* French Huguenot Hospital
* St Mark's Hospital for Fistula and other Diseases of the Rectum
* Holborn & Finsbury Poor Law Union
* [[Bethlem Hospital]], on the site of what is now [[Finsbury Circus]]