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BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON HULL
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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Granted its Borough Charter in 1299, it became incorporated in 1440, and separated from Yorkshire. Enlarged 1447, Hull's boundaries remained unchanged... |
HULL CASTLE
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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Site of Hull Castle. Henrician artillery castle of 1541 sited between two blockhouses (qv) and interconnected with them by a curtain wall. Converted t... |
SOUTH END BATTERY AND FORT
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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This battery was built 1626-7 for defence against the Spanish, and further strengthened in 1629. This and the adjacent Artillery Ground survived until... |
NORTH GATE
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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At the North-east corner of Hull Town Walls, originally with an external bridge spanning the ditch. Built ca.1321, by 1641 it had been added to so tha... |
BEVERLEY GATE
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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Town gate in the North-West corner of Hull Town Walls. The gate had a bridge over the outer ditch. Ca.1540, it is depicted as being surmounted by a sp... |
SOUTH END CHAIN TOWER
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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The round tower at the east end of the South Town Wall was strengthened in 1541 to take the mechanism for an anti-shipping chain which anchored near t... |
POSTERNGATE
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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One of four posterngates, this was a round tower in the West wall between Beverley and Myton Gates, at the end of Posterngate Street. Piles in the ext... |
LOW GATE
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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Postern in the North wall of Hull Town Walls at the North end of Lowgate Street. A map of 1640 shows a bridge over the external ditch. This was the ga... |
BLACKFRIARGATE POSTERN
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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Postern through the West town wall at the end of Blackfriargate (now Blanket Row). A map of 1640 shows piles outside the postern in the town ditch ind... |
WATER GATE
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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A postern on the South side of the town near the South End. Hollar's map of 1640 shows it as a large square tower arched over a street on the town sid... |
MONUMENT NO. 1062179
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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North Town Walls, 1321-1776. Connected North Gate with Beverley Gate. Built of brick with an earth bank backing. A mixture of round and square wall to... |
MONUMENT NO. 1062183
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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North-West Town Walls. Beverley-Myton Gate section. 4 square wall towers, two either side of the central, round, Posterngate. The section 50m North of... |
MYTON GATE
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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Main gate through the West town wall, almost midway between the Beverley and Hessle Gates. Demolished between 1784-1800. |
HESSLE GATE
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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SW corner of the town walls where they turn East along the Humber. The gate had been extended over the town ditch by the mid C17th. It was probably pr... |
MONUMENT NO. 1062269
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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South-West town wall section between Myton and Hessle gates. Three square mural towers, the southernmost being the Blackfriargate. Demolished by 1800. |
MONUMENT NO. 1062272
KINGSTON UPON HULL
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South town wall between Hessle Gate and South End Chain Tower. 5-8 wall towers, including the Water Gate. One is shown as round ca.1540, but all were ... |