Today I went into Worcester to run a few errands and to get a couple of items I could not get yesterday. I took this photo in Crown Gate. Crown Gate (now a shopping area) was one of the old walled-city gates. Other gates included Foregate (where one of the train stations is today,) Friars Gate and Lich Gate (demolished in 1965.) One of the car parks ("parking garages" for those reading this in the USA) today is located on City Walls Road.
"The boundary of the city was formerly determined by a wall which commenced near Edgar’s Tower, at the Castle gate, passed at the back of St. Peter’s to a gate which was called Sidbury Gate, and thence to Friars’ Gate, which stood near the present city prison ; it curved inwards on the north-east of the present corn-market, round the hop-market, to a bridge built in 1313, and fortified with a strong tower, which stood near it. It then followed the course of the river to the Priory gate, and thence to the Castle mound. This work may still be traced in some places. There were six gates (besides the tower on the bridge) the last was taken down in 1787."
From - http://www.oldtowns.co.uk/Worcestershire/worcester.htm
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