Slater's town plan analysis of Doncaster (in Buckland 1989), interprets the triangular market place and the three ranges of plots around it (Market Place) as originating in one coherent (re)planning episode. Slater bases this interpretation on the apparent diversion of an earlier street (High Fishergate / East Laithe Gate) into the market place and the possible truncation of plots along the east side of High Street to form new plots facing the market place. Slater conjecturally suggests that this re-planning occurred around the 1190s at a time concurrent with the granting of increased urban privileges to the town (ibid, 49-50). The burgage pattern described by Slater around the market places and still visible on an 1832 plan of the 'Town of Doncaster' (Fig 7 in Ford 2006), is markedly different in character to the long, and probably older burgages along the Hall Gate (High Street) / French Gate axis. The traditional morphological framework of thin narrow plots appears from historic plans to have been maintained until the late 1960s (with probable piecemeal replacement of medieval buildings in brick and stone). At this time much of this character unit appears to have been redeveloped as large stores with consequent encroachment and enlargement of the original medieval unit onto the area of the fort / burgh complex to the north contemporary with the construction of Church Way (HSY5801). Fragmentary legibility of the earlier narrow burgage pattern is retained in plan form to the eastern end of this unit (nos 8 to 19) where there is the greatest potential for the survival of older building fabric.