Rear of 17-29 Hungate & 5-6 Drummonds Ct.
Rear of 31 Hungate & 19, 11 and 12 Drummond's Ct.
Rear of 7 Hungate & 5 and 9 Garden Place
3 and 5 Hungate, 1-5 Lime Street
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The street of Hungate is attested from the twelfth century, occurring as Hundegat in Mersch in a quarter of 1161 X 1184 (EYC I, 231, Palliser, 1978, 11). Mersch, indicates a marsh, referring to areas to the east of the site. The name of the street is derived from the Old English hund or Old Norse hundr, meaning dog or hound, and gata meaning street. Benson states that this name is derived from the keeping of the King's hounds in the area, but Raine (1955, 62) disputes this as an explanation created to fit the name. More likely, it seems, the name would derive from the large numbers of stray dogs in the area attracted by the meat dumped by butchers from the Shambles. Dogs are documented as a problem in the area until the eighteenth century.
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Rear of 17-29 Hungate & 5-6 Drummonds Ct. |
Rear of 31 Hungate & 19, 11 and 12 Drummond's Ct. |
Rear of 7 Hungate & 5 and 9 Garden Place |
3 and 5 Hungate, 1-5 Lime Street |