Shambles
Narrow medieval butchers' lane of overhanging timber-framed shops, with surviving meat hooks.
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This audio guide to the Shambles in York follows the money down one narrow lane of butchers, starting with a Norman lord named in the Domesday Book of ten eighty-six. It touches the meat trade that gave the street its name, the blood channel in its cobbles, and the city council that bought up its buildings in the nineteen fifties. Stand among the shopfronts and look for the old hooks and shelves.
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