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Gilley-Gate, or St. Giles's gate, is a good flreet, uniform, and fur- 

 niflied with many good houfes. 



CockJJjo'w is chiefly inhabited by tanners. It is an irregular 

 flreet. 



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Pudding-Chare is between the head of Gilley-Gate, and the firm- 

 mit of the Hall-Stile-Sank. It is a fmall ftrect. 







Hall-Garth, or Hall-Court, confifts of feveral fmall, irregular 

 ftreets ; fo named from the town-hall, or town-court. 



Hall-Stile-Bank is contiguous to Hall-Garth. It is the entrance 

 into the town from Morpeth. 



, or Bond-gate, is a narrow, confined flreet, as the name 

 of Bond-gate imports. It has the name of EaJl-Bnrn to diftinguifli 

 it from a flreamlet at the weft end of the town. It is the en- 

 trance from HexhamJJjire. 



The Market-Place is in the center of the town, large, fquare, 

 well built, and paved. On the fouth fide, is a market-houfe on 

 piazzas, or ftone-pilafters, lately built for the ufe of the town by 

 Sir Walter Calverley Blacket, Bart. In the middle is a large foun- 

 tain, with a refervoir under it, of freeftone, and hewn work. It 

 was erected at the charge of the inhabitants of that part of the 

 town. The water which fupplies it is brought, for near a mile, 

 in pipes. Here are two weekly markets, on Tuefday and Satur- 

 day. The firft is of chief note. Every Tuefday-fortnight, from 

 the tenth of March, to the tenth of December, is a market for 

 horned-cattle. On the 25th of July, and on St. Simon and St. 



are two annual fairs. 



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