This area equates to the potentially medieval suburb of ‘Marsh Gate’ described by Slater in his town plan analysis (Buckland 1989, 54-55). It lies within the are of a former island probably created by the digging of the ‘Mill Dyke’ section of the river Don (as mapped in 1854 by the OS first 6 inch edition ) and the River Cheswold. The burgage plots depicted on historic maps up until the twentieth century lay outside the core of the town (defined by the Cheswold to the north and the area enclosed by the medieval ‘Bar Dike’) but within the bounds of the medieval borough as marked by stone crosses (ibid, 54). Slater considered this suburban development to have been, “a potentially late development … primarily of poorer townspeople, the poor living conditions [this area being poorly drained and liable to flooding] being balanced by the attraction of a main road and its trading possibilities” (ibid, 55). The medieval burgage plan was principally situated on the east side of ‘Marsh Gate’ road which follows the course of the Roman road until it diverts to meet the river crossing of St Mary’s Bridge (on the site of a medieval predecessor). Cherry Lane represents the rear extent of a smaller series of burgages situated to the west line of this diversion and abutting the course of the Roman road. The eastern series was the first to be lost (between 1906 and 1930) as a result of the construction of the ‘North Bridge Road’ section of the ‘A1 - Great North Road’ through the middle of its plots. This construction was contemporary with that of a ‘Horse Depository”. This side of North Gate Road was redeveloped for retail use in the 1990s. The western side appears to have been cleared and redeveloped for light industrial and commercial use in the mid twentieth century. Fragmentary legibility of underlying historic forms only.