Lurk Lane, Beverley
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Lurk Lane, Beverley
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 25 Feb 2023
This is now a pedestrian route through modern housing but is an ancient thoroughfare close to the Minster. Excavations before the development revealed remains from the 9th century or earlier https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336232047_Excavations_at_Lurk_Lane_Beverley_1979_-_1982 ; the name is said originally to have been Lort Lane, referring to its 'dirty condition' https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol6/pp169-178
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Image Location
Latitude
53.838688
Longitude
-0.423875