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Aerial view showing the length of Briggate from the junction with Boer Lane and Duncan Street at the bottom to The Headrow at the top. This busy shopping precinct has a history dating back to 1207 when the Borough of Leeds was first created through a charter granted by Maurice Paynel, Lord of the Manor of Leeds. The new town was built along a street running from the crossing point on the River Aire to the edge of the Woodhouse open fields, which became known as 'the road to the bridge', or Briggate - from brycg, the old English word for bridge, and gata, the old Norse for a way or street. The photo clearly shows that the pattern of Briggate has changed little since its earliest times, when thirty burgage plots were laid out along each side of the street; houses were built at the front of each one with long gardens stretching behind. As time went on these plots were subdivided and additional houses built at the rear, which led to a series of narrow yards off both sides of the street along the whole of its length, many of which can still be seen today. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Briggate The Headrow aerial view | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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