Editing Finsbury (section)

===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.