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. Within this area replacement of medieval building fabric appears to have retained much of the plan form of the original burgage layout with the predominant plot shape being long and narrow to this day. Most plots are likely to have had their buildings renewed in a piecemeal fashion during the 18th 19th and 20th centuries although the presence of earlier cores surviving behind later frontages cannot be discounted in such an area. Partial legibility of an area with strong medieval plan form influences.