relates to land in St. Margaret's Parish, which lay on the west side of "the street called Kyrkegate"; and that the name was established at the beginning of the 16th century is shown by a benevolence roll of that time, in which the fourth Ward is defined as "Belgravegate on both sides street to the corner fore agaynste Berehill crosse with the Kyrkegate to St. Margaret's Church."
The name Gosewellgate occurs as early as 1302; and in the year 1305 a messuage was granted which stood "outside the East Gate in Gosewellgate." In the Leicester Hearth Tax Roll of 1664, Alderman Palmer's Ward is described as comprising "Church Gate from St. Margaret's Church to the Round Hill, Gosewell Gate and Belgrave gate." Hence it may be gathered that Gosewellgate was identical with the Haymarket, lying between the East Gates and Belgrave Gate.
The term Gallowtree Gate, or Galtregate, was applied to the highway in St. Martin's Parish South of Churchgate. The point of division, the Roundel opposite to the East Gate, is made clear by the boundaries of the old Wards in 1484 and 1557.
The name of the street occurs in the Borough Records, as Gallowtree Gate, Galughtregate, Galowe tre gate, Gaultrygate and Galtregate. In the title deeds of the old Angel Inn it is said to have been named "Gallows Lane." It does not appear ever to have been known as Gartree Gate, which the late Mr. F. T. Mott thought might be its original title. In his opinion it had borne the name of the Hundred, and formed part of the old Roman Road called "Gartree Road." But, apart from the unlikelihood of the word "Gartree" being lengthened into "Gallowtree," the course of the Gartree Road does not seem to have corresponded with Gallowtree Gate. There was a gallows placed on the top of the London Road Hill, above Gallowtreegate, at the corner of Evington Lane, set upon what was described in 1316 as Galtre "cultura" (a cultivated plot, or wong), afterwards known as Gallow-tree or Galltree Hill. Gallowtree Gate, a northern continuation of the same road, might have been
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