Site Event/Activity record ECC1828 - Early reference to 'Morestrate', now Priory Street, Colchester, 1275

Location

Location Priory Street, Colchester
Grid reference Centred TM 00083 25039 (0m by 1m)
Map sheet TM02NW
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Unknown

Date

1275

Map

Description

Early reference to 'Morestrate' now Priory Street in 1275. <1><2>

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Monograph: Blaxill, A.. 1936. The street names of Colchester. p19.
  • <2> Monograph: Crummy, Philip. 1981. CAR 1: Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Colchester. 1. p79.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Medieval Priory Street, Colchester (Monument)

Record last edited

Feb 9 2016 1:32PM

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