A Walk through Leicester / being a Guide to Strangers

by Susannah Watts

GALLOWTREE-GATE,

(corruptly pronounced Goltre), from its having formerly led to the place of execution, the left side of which is the scite of the antient city walls.

At the bottom of this street, a building, formerly the assembly-room, but now converted to purposes of trade, with a piazza, under which is a machine for weighing coals, forms the centre of five considerable streets. The