King's Gate,King's Gate, Winchester |
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town gate |
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Winchester Hampshire SU481290 |
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JandMN |
old map: | 25inch County Series map -- Hants XLI.13 |
description |
Kinges Gate otherwise: St Michael's Gate? The place is described in text Leland 1535-43 - town gate - Winchester parish: - Hampshire |
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Leland 1535-43 Ther be in the waulles vj. gates, ... The 5. is caullid the Kinges Gate, and is betwixt the south gate and Wolvesey and Bisshopes palace. ... S. Michael's Gate in Winchestre is spoken of of aunciente wryters, but that name is now out of use. Ther is a chirch of S. Michael by the Kinges Gate, whereon I conjecture that the Kinges Gate was sumtyme caullid S. Michael's Gate, or els the south gate. |