's original image of the North Gate Cardiff had six gates; north, west, south, Gulley or Golate, Blaunch and west. However, there is little evidence to indicate that Golate or Gulley Gate was a proper gate instead of just a breach in a section of the wall that had already been ruined by flooding.
East The East Gate was known only by one name, Porth Crockerton
(Crockerton Gate
). The gate spanned Crockherbtown Street, now known as Queen Street, for travellers heading east to
Llanrumney and
Newport. It already stood when, in 1171,
William Fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the
Lord of Glamorgan, mentioned it as the eastern boundary of the
borough. Locally it was known as Moor Gate because it led to Soundry or South Town and onto moorlands, The gate was demolished after 20 September 1781 according to Cardiff Council minutes. It was not in the original palisade town wall in the 12th and 13th centuries. It seems likely that this gate was added when the town walls were rebuilt in the 15th century. In 1542, it was recorded as Blounts Yate, but before that it was known as Wales Gate. Later the name changed to Blaunch or Blounts Gate, named after the keeper of the gate. Nothing else is known about it. It is not shown on John Speed's plan or on a later drawing of 1678. It was later recorded in the Court of Bailiffs on 28 January 1785, that it was "Ordered that the gate near the Quay called the Blunch or Blount Gate be taken out" ==Preservation==