Narrow Racket, Beverley, Yorkshire
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Narrow Racket, Beverley, Yorkshire
Image: © Bernard Sharp Taken: 5 Aug 2015
Narrow Racket is an alley that runs from Lairgate, opposite Newbegin, to Saturday Market, between Nos.58 & 59. Its original name was most probably Narrow Lane, first recorded in 1409, that ran between the High Street (which then comprised North Bar Within, Saturday Market, Toll Gavel, Butcher Row and Wednesday Market) and Lairgate. According to The Yorkshire Palette: http://theyorkshirepalette.com/2013/09/19/snickets-and-rackets-of-beverley/ A racket is an open expanse between passages so-called perhaps because these were the haunts of the unsavoury, the unscrupulous ,the down right drudge of society that carried out their dodgy deals and “rackets” in these areas. Viewed from Narrow Racket, looking across Lairgate to the junction with Newbegin.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.842405
Longitude
-0.433159