Road and way · The High South
Carriage Gate
The busiest gate of Cambridge, where the eastern carriage road enters the town. In market weeks wagons queue outside it in a line. A gate clerk, Thomas Wyle, records every stay, and Chalkwater Street runs from the gate to the assay courts. Carters' inns cluster close inside.
- Within
- Cambridge
- Holds
- 2 places
- Named in
- Travelling Britannia
Where the volumes speak of it
- LiB2 › Chapter 3 — Cambridge › 3.2 Gates, Bridges, and the Gate-Books
- LiB2 › Chapter 3 — Cambridge › 3.1 Streets, Wards, and Quarters
- LiB2 › Chapter 3 — Cambridge › 3.4 Inns, Lodging Houses, and Carrier Houses
- LiB2 › Chapter 3 — Cambridge › 3.6 Cook-Shops, Chop Rooms, and Coffee Rooms
Within Carriage Gate
Inn and venue The Half Moon The Half Moon is a poor but honest inn beyond Carriage Gate in Cambridge, where rejected consignments and their carters wait for documents. Widow Ellen Starling accepts… Inn and venue The Plumb and Level The Plumb and Level is a carriers' inn just within Cambridge's Carriage Gate, and it boasts the biggest wagon yard in the liberty. Landlord Samuel Hasell keeps it,… 