Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (17)town wall
town gate
Bar Gate
East Gate
South Gate
God's House Gate
Water Gate
West Gate
Biddles Gate
Ther be yn the fair and right stronge waulle of New-Hampton these gates:
Fyrst Barre gate by north large and welle embatelid. In the upper parte of [this gate] is domus civica: and [underne]the is the toun prison. [There is a gre]ate suburbe with[out this gate, and ther] is a great [double] dike welle waterid on eche hand without it. And so 4. tourres in the waulle, (whereof the 3. as a corner towre is very fair stronge) to the est gate.
The Est gate is strong, but nothing so large as the Barre-gate.
There is a suburbe withoute this gate, and S. Maries the mother chyrch of New-Hampton stondith yn it.
There be vj. fair tourres in the walle betwixt the est gate and the south gate: and loke as the town without the waulle is doble dichid from the castelle to Barre-gate, and so to est gate; so it is from est gate almost even to south gate.
The South Gate stondith not even ful south but south est: and ther is ioinyd to it a castelet welle ordinauncid to bete that quarter of the haven.
Ther is a nother meane gate a litle more south caullid Goddeshouse-Gate, of an hospitale yoinid to it.
And not far beyond it is a fair gate caullid the Water [gat]e: without the wich is [a faire square] key forsid with [piles into the haven water] for ship[pes to resort to].
Then a 3. towrres to the west gate.
The West Gate is strong, and even without it is a large key for shippes, as there is without the water gate.
Ther be 2. gates beside, wherof one is a posterne, and the other is by the castelle.
Minns:- Of the eight gates enumerated by Leland, four remain: Bar Gate, God's House Gate, West Gate and the Postern (Blue Anchor Gate.) The following have disappeared: East Gate, South or Water Gate, and Biddles Gate at the bottom of Simnel Street, 'The Gate by the Castle,' mentioned by Leland.
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