Editing Whitechapel (section)

====Whitechapel Mount====
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The [[Whitechapel Mount]] was a large, probably artificial mound, of unknown origin, that stood on the south side of Whitechapel Road, about 1200 metres east of the [[Aldgate]], immediately west of the modern Royal London Hospital. The Mount is widely believed to have formed part of London's defences during the [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] in the mid-17th century. This was either as part of a ring of fortifications known as the [[Lines of Communication (London)|Lines of Communication]], which were in operation from 1642 to 1647,<ref>Civil War London, David Flintham, Helion and Company, 2017</ref> or additionally or alternatively, as one of the three forts replacing that system of defence immediately afterwards.

The mount was removed to allow residential development in 1807–1808.
[[File:The London Hospital, Whitechapel; seen from the northern sid Wellcome L0002107.jpg|thumb|The [[London Hospital]], Whitechapel in 1753. The [[Whitechapel Mount]] stands immediately to the right (west).]]