Ten Bell Lane
Ten Bell Lane
The seventeenth-century gabled houses, Nos 10-14, which stood half way up the lane on the east side, as well as Trowse Yard behind them, were demolished in 1938 in a slum clearance programme. The yard, by the way, was not named after the village of Trowse but from a member of the family of that name who owned property here many years ago. Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2004 |
Note that whereas the public house on
its corner is named the Ten Bells, the lane that leads up
to Pottergate curiously adopts the singular, “Ten
Bell”, as does its neighbour Three King Lane. In the
early eighteenth century Ten Bell Lane was known as
Holgate, as was Mariner’s Lane in King Street, and
for the same reason - as being a hollow way, washed
hollow by the rain flowing swiftly down from higher
ground.