Major road junction constructed as part of the DMBC sponsored 'North Bridge Relief Road Scheme' constructed in the early years of the 21st century. This area encompasses a quarter of the medieval town of Doncaster identified by Slater (see Buckland 1989) as possessing a unique townscape of quite different character to that of the French Gate / High Street (see HSY5805) and Market Place (HSY5817) burgage areas. The irregular streets shown in this area on historic plans (see figures in Ford 2006), were populated by timber framed buildings on stone foundations, with strong indications of industrial occupation during the medieval period, and related to a medieval waterfront activity preceded by a Saxon quay discovered through excavation (Lilley 1994). The findings of the excavations during the 1990s fit neatly into the picture drawn by the plan-form analysis of Slater (in Buckland 1989) which interprets the former streets of “Low Fisher Gate and Friendly, formerly Friendless Street leading down to the wharves to beside the Don, [as] suggest[ing] early and irregular development". Slater bases his phasing of this part of Doncaster on the diversion of the putative former line of High Fisher Gate / East Laithe Gate (originally leading directly to this quarter) into the 12th century market place. The former place-name ‘Freindless Street’ may refer to the predominance of industrial activities in this area. ‘[A] piece of ground called Tanhouse Yard’ is referenced here in 1597-8 (Daniell – App 18 in Lilley 1998) with references to tanners, boat keeping, a skin yard, timber yard coal yard and other activities continuing throughout the post-medieval period. The land between Fishergate and the River is described in post-medieval documents as ‘the Common Lane’ or ‘Common Shore’ indicating an area for docking and wharves which were subject to common rights of use (ibid). 20th century transport alterations have completely altered the form of this area, first through a re-direction of the course of the Don to the North (cutting off the section known as ‘Gashouse Bight’ between 1930 and 1948) and in the early 1970s by the demolition of the entire area of Fishergate / Freindless Street and the construction of a multi-storey car park, roundabout and carriageways associated with the development of the Church Way inner relief road scheme. The car park and roundabout were replaced by the present major interchange gyratory system in the early twentieth century as part of the implementation of the North Bridge Inner Relief Road Scheme (Jim McNeil pers. com). No historic legibility survives within this area.