This area lies immediately to the north of the putative extents of the Roman fort (see HSY5796). This area was depicted on mapping from 1786 (see Ford 2006, Fig 4) as orchards; a use continued until their absorption into the garden of the vicarage (now demolished). During this period the north of this site was occupied by the 'River Cheswold', the ancient northern boundary of the town, thought from its relationship to the Roman Fort to be an ancient course of the River Don. Wharfages are known to have existed to the west and east of this site (see Slater in Buckland et al 1989) and can thus also be interpolated here. The Cheswold was backfilled between 1906-1930 allowing for this and other developments. No legibility of earlier landscapes.