'A local habitation and a name ...'

PLACENAMES of ST AUGUSTINE'S, NORWICH,
and SOME ADJACENT AREAS

Names in italic are of places now lost or that have changed their name 

 Adelaide Yard See Queen Adelaide Yard.

 Anglia Square Shopping precinct built in the late 1960s/early 1970s over Stump Cross and parts of Botolph Street.
 
 Anguish's Boys Charity A stone plaque set high up on the front of a house on the west side of Oak Street (just north of the Inner Ring Road) reads 'Anguish's Boys  Charity 1901.' Thomas Anguish was Mayor of Norwich in 1611. He died in 1617 and left money in his will to set up schools for the education of the city's poor boys and girls. Ragged School Yard once stood near here. 

 Anne's Walk A passage way from Magdalen Street into the northeast corner of Anglia Square.

 Baldwin's Yard See Dog Yard.

 Barnes Yard This courtyard is located at the rear of St Augustine's Street opposite Leonard Street. It is not known who Barnes was although it is interesting to note that in 1865-7 the landlord of the Free Trade Tavern, which stood nearby on St Augustine's Street was one Charles Barnes. There is no passageway from this yard into St Augustine's Street. There is another Barnes Yard off Magdalen Street.  

 Botolph Street Before Anglia Square was built Botolph Street ran between the junction of Pitt Street and St Augustine's Street to Stump Cross in Magdalen Street. Prior the economic decline of the 1930s Botolph Street was a busy, commercial street with numerous dwellings, shops and pubs, as well as the entrance gates to large boot and textile factories. All are now gone, swept away in the late 1960s when Anglia Square was developed. Botolph Street now incorporates the north end of St George's Street, which was cut off from its southern half by the Inner Ring Road in the early 1970s. Botolph Street is named after St Botolph's church, which stood near Magdalen Street from at least the 13th century until it was deconsecrated and demolished in 1548. St Botolph was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon abbot and a popular saint in England in the Middle Ages, particularly in East Anglia.
  
 Botolph Way Passage way between Botolph Street and Anglia Square.

 Bushel & Strike The Norwich Gazette of 21 September 1728 reported that "Samuel Gains, jun. and Samuel Morris, will sit at Mr. Thomas Fiddimen's at the Bushel & Strike in St Augustines Parish in Norwich, where will be given constant Attendance every Friday and Saturday till Noon, to buy Barley and other Grains, and will give as good prices as any Person whoever". Bushel & Strike may have been an earlier name of The Bushel pub (see Bushel Yard). A bushel is a measure of capacity equivalent to eight gallons (36.4 litres), while 'strike' may refer to 'striking a bargain', in other words, agreeing the price of a bushel of grain.  

 Bushel Yard This lost yard was located between 27 and 29 St Augustine's Street (east side). Its entrance was roughly where there's now a door between a Polish grocers and a house letting agent's premises. The yard was named after the Bushell pub, which was located a no. 27. The Bushell closed in 1928 after having possibly been in business for more than 200 years (see Bushel & Strike).

 Calvert Street This street originally ran between Colegate in the south and Botolph Street in the north. With the construction of Anglia Square and the Inner Ring Road in the late 1960s/early 1970s it was cut in two. The northern portion disappearing beneath the concrete of Anglia Square roughly where it was joined by Green Lane. Who Calvert Street is named after is a bit of a mystery. The most favoured explanation is that it was named after John Calvert, a Sheriff of Norwich in 1741 who may have had a house here. The southern portion of this street was (and still is) known as Snailgate. 

 Catherine Wheel Opening A lane on the north side of the Catherine Wheel at 61 St Augustine's Street (east side); the only pub on this street still trading (there were eight at one time). It runs between St Augustine's Street to an alley on the west side of the Magpie pub on Magpie Road. Until it was demolished in 1794, St Augustine's Gate stood only a few yards to the north of this pub (click here to see engraving) and lanes such as this provided access to the inside of the wall where all sorts of dwellings, stables and workshops could be found. 

 'Chaff Lug Alley' See Jenkins Lane.
 
 Chatham Street When it came to naming this street between Sussex Street with the Gildencroft in the 1880s, it was thought that nearby Pitt Street was named after the British prime minister William Pitt 'The Younger' (1759-1806), son of the Earl of Chatham. In fact Pitt Street was originally called Pit Street for the prosaic reason that it housed a big rubbish pit.

 Cherry Lane This lane runs from the bottom of Pitt Street (east side) into Botolph Street (formerly St George's Street). It was once known as Tooleys Lane (see Pitt Street) but took its present name from the Cherry Tree pub (see Cherry Tree Opening).

 Cherry Tree Opening This cul-de-sac now runs off what is now known as Botolph Street, but used to be part of St George's Street. Older maps seem to indicate that its opening was originally on Pitt Street. It is named after the Cherry Tree pub, later called the Golden Sovereign, which closed in 1988.
  
 Cooke's Hospital See Malzy Court.

 Cross Street This street of 19th-century terraced housing (all now gone) ran off the south side of Sussex Street. It was renamed The Lathes in the late 1970s when an estate of maisonettes was built behind Sussex Street.

 Dalimond Also known as the Dalimund or Dalymond Ditch or Dyke, the Dalimond is one of the lost streams of Norwich. Its name is probably a back-formation from a topographical feature of the area, a small mound or hill. The stream or 'cockey' in the local dialect, flowed from Old Catton in the north via Angel Road, entering roughly where Edward Street is today, then meandered through the Stump Cross, St Paul's and Fishergate areas to fall into the River Wensum at the bottom of Hansard Lane near St Edmund's church. The Dalimond was discovered to be still flowing underground through gravel beds during excavations in Peacock Street in 1985. Another version of its name was the Balymondyke.

 Dalimond Croft An area west of St Augustine's Street and east of Edward Street covered today by Esdelle Street and Leonard Street was known as the Dalimond Croft in the early Middle Ages.    

 Damien Elton Court Late 20th-century gated court of three apartments off Rose Yard. But who was Damien Elton?

 Dark Entry Yard Lost yard located on east sie of Pitt Street near the Queen Adelaide pub, which was demolished in 1967. 

 Delph Yard This was located between 35 and 37 St Augustine's Street (east side). The site of its entrance is now the vestibule between two shop premises. William Delph had a plumbers and glaziers business here in the 19th century. He was also a churchwarden at St Augustine's church, where he was involved in a controversy concerning the shortening of the churchyard boundary in the 1870s. His son was landlord of the Prince of Wales pub.  

 Dog Yard Located on the east side of Oak Street in a row of 17th-century weavers' cottages (nos 98-108). Yards in Norwich often take their name from the tavern or inn they stood beside, but no record of a Dog tavern in Oak Street has been found.  It is next door to Talbots Yard. Two other yards, Goat Yard and Baldwin's Yard, were also in this block, but are no longer named. 

 Eagle Opening This lane was located to the east of the Spread Eagle pub in Sussex Street. It is now the (unnamed) entrance to Sussex House, a former shoe factory (Clarkes) and latterly an office of Norwich Union insurance (Aviva). 

 Edward Street The street today runs between Magdalen Street and Magpie Road. It was originally somewhat shorter and only ran between Esdelle Street and Rose Yard. Its present Magpie Road end was previously part of Esdelle Street, while its present Magdalen Street end was Minns Yard. It is not known why it was called Edward Street. A lost stream, the Dalimond, once flowed into the city near here. The area to the west of Edward Street was then known as the Dalimond Croft, while the area to the east was known as St Margaret's Croft after the the lost church of St Margaret Combusto.  
 
 Ebenezer Place A collection of two- and three-storey 20th-century council flats off Sussex Street around a small wooded area, built on the site of Ebenezer Terrace, a row of 19th-century labourers' cottages demolished in the 20th-century. It is not known how it got its name. Ebenezer was a name often given to non-conformist chapels in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. ('Ebenezer' is Hebrew for 'stone of help'.) St Augustine's parish was an important focus of dissenting activity in this period by Quakers, Baptists and Methodists, though no record of an Ebenezer chapel having once stood here has yet been found. 

 Esdelle Street A street of late 19th-century terraced houses without front gardens that runs off the east side of St Augustine's Street. It meets Edward Street in the east and also provides access to Leonard Street. It was probably built between 1885 and 1886. It doesn't appear on the 1885 Ordnace Survey map while one of the houses on its southern side has a plaque stating 'Robert Terrace 1886'. Esdelle is probably a surname or made up name rather than a forename, so this is not one of Norwich's 'lady streets'. Shorten & Armes had a shoe factory here from the 1930s and the 1970s

 Frelane This lane, mentioned in documents dating from the 13th century, once ran to the west of St Martin's at Oak Street.

 Folly Grounds This plot of land stood in the northwest corner of the Gildencroft between the Jousting Acre and Tutt Hill near St Martin's Gate. It appears to have been a place of recreation for music, dancing and 'camping', an early form of football (click here for more information) and may have been connected with a tavern and piece of ground near here known as the Tabor's Folly. Tabor's Folly is first mentioned on a map of 1746 printed to accompany volume 2 of Francis Blomefield's History of Norfolk. While it is generally believed that 'Tabor' refers to the small drum used in medieval and Renaissance times, it is interesting to note that in the 1650s and 1660s, during a period of religious controversy, there was a well-known churchwarden and overseer of St Martin at Oak church and freeman of Norwich called John Tabor. Parts of the Gildencroft, right up to the city wall, were then part of St Martin at Oak parish. From early medieval times until the Reformation an icon of the Virgin Mary hung in an oak tree in St Martin's churchyard, attracted large numbers of pilgrims. During the reign of Edward VI the image was removed by Protestant iconoclasts and the tree felled. About 100 years later, on 9 March 1656, John Tabor, a gardener by trade, bought an oak tree from "Ranner Hall" (possibly Ranworth Hall) and replanted it in St Martin's churchyard. Could the Tabor's Folly have perhaps commemorated this unusual feat? 

Fuller's Hole An area on the east bank of the River Wensum near present-day
St Martin's Close. Although this placename's association with fuller's earth - a type of clay used for fulling (i.e. cleaning and thickening) cloth - seems plausible, given the proximity of the area to the city's textile trade, it is more likely to derive from the nearby Fuller's Hall or House, which once stood  here. This medieval hall was demolished during slum clearances in St Martin's parish in the 1930s and nothing of it now remains, though fortunately there are drawings of it by Henry Ninham and David Hodgson. "Hole" was a word used locally for a narrow passage leading to the river.  On 1 September 1747 John Brooks and Isaac Wolfery were drowned near Fuller's Hole. However, the area's association with the textile trade cannot be entirely discounted; on the west bank of the river here was an area known as the Bleaching Ground where cloth was laid out to bleach in the sun.

Gildencroft Today the Gildencroft comprises a small public park to the southwest of St Augustine's churchyard and the lane that runs along its north side. It was once a much larger area of open land located west of St Augustine's Street, east of St Martin at Oak Street, south of the city wall and noth of Martin's or Whores Lane.  It is thought to have been part of the manor of Tokethorp or Tolthorp in the early Middle Ages, but was later owned by the Geat Hospital of St Giles in Bishopsgate. It was known as the Gilding or Gipping Croft on some 18th-century maps. Other placenames associated with the Gildencroft are the Folly Grounds, the Jousting Acre, the Quaker Burial Ground, the Hebrew Congregation Cemetery, Jenkins Lane, Gildencroft Lane and Quaker Lane (click here for more information).

 Gildencroft Lane See Quaker Lane 

 Gildengate See Middle Street.

 Gilding Croft or Cross See Gildencroft.

 Gipping Croft or Cross See Gildencroft.

 Goat Yard See Dog Yard. 

 Gos Lane See Jenkins Lane.

 Great Hall, The 15th-century timber-framed house on west side of Oak Street.

 Green Lane See Upper Green Lane.

 Hebrew Congregation Cemetery Jewish cemetery at southeast corner of Talbot Square. This small plot of land was leased by Norwich's Hebrew Congregation in 1813. It ceased being used for burials in 1854. Click here for more information.
  
 Hermitage, The Marked on an early 18th-century plan of Norwich as a house built into the city wall to the west of St Augustine's Gates.

 Hindes Yard This yard is located between 13 and 15 St Augustine's Street (east side). Hindes Yard, Rose Yard and Wine Coopers Arms Yard are the only yards left in St Augustine's Street that the public can still walk through. Of the three, Hindes Yard is probably the closest to what many of Norwich's yards were once like: narrow and dark. The yard is probably named after the Hinde family who owned a silk shawl making factory in Botolph Street in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Hinde family tomb is located almost opposite in the northeast corner of St Augustine's churchyard. Click here for image. 

 Hospital of St Mary and St Clement Leper or 'Lazar' house which stood outside the city wall to the east of St Augustine's Gate on what is now known as Wateloo Road. By the 18th century it was being used a 'poor house' for 'lunatic paupers'. 

 Howard Terrace Name given to a block of three-storey, early 19th-century town houses on the north side of Sussex Street, which were converted into flats by Broadland Housing Association in the 1970s.

 Jenkins Lane Alley between Chatham Street and Oak Street, well known in Norwich for its narrowness for hundreds of years. The earliest known description of this passage way (though unnamed) is dated 1472. The first known reference to it as Jenkins Lane is on a map of 1696. It may have been used by the Quakers to gain access to their burial ground in the Gildencroft in the 17th century and by the Jews to access their cemetery near present-day Talbot Square in the early 19th century. Called Gos Lane by Robert Blomefield in the 18th century. Who Gos or Jenkins were hasn't been esablished. It acquired the nickname 'Chaff Lug Alley' by locals because it was siad it was so narrow one risked chaffing one's lugs (ears) passing through it. Currently without a name plate.

 Jousting Acre Part of the Gildencroft, located in its northwest corner, roughly between present-day Ebenezer Place and Bakers Road inside the line of the old city wall. It is thought that Norwich's knights and men-at-arms practised their martial skills here, including mock combat on foot and horseback, tilting at the quintain on horseback and archery. It is possible that the grand tournament held in Norwich on St Valentine's Day 1340, which was attended by Edward III, was held here. 

 Key and Castle Yard This new development of houses and flats on the west side of Oak Street gets its name from the yard that stood beside the Key and Castle pub, which finally called last orderd in 1958. Its most infamous landlord was one William Sheward, licensee here from 1868 to 1869. In a fit of drunken melancholy he confessed to the police that he had murdered his wife in 1851 and disposed of her body by chopping her up and depositing portions all around Norwich's outskirts. He was found guilty and hanged at Norwich Gaol.
   
 Lathes, The An estate of 42 maisonettes and flats built in the late 1970s and managed by Broadland Housing Association located off the south side of Sussex Street. Its name is taken from that of a farm that covered this area from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century. 'Lathe' is an old English dialect word for a type of barn. Click here for more information.

 Leonard Street This L-shaped street of late 19th-century terrace houses runs between Esdelle Street and Edward Street. It was begun to be built in 1886 shortly after Esdelle Street. It lost the short row of four houses that once stood on its western side, possibly as a result of enemy bombing during the Second World War. It isn't known who Leonard was, but it may be a surname rather than a forename (compare Esdelle Street).   
 
 Magpie Road It is not certain whether the road is named after the Magpie pub (currently closed) or the pub after the road. The pub was known as the Weighing Chains for a while in the mid-19th century, as it had a weighbridge in front of it to weigh wagons. The road follows the line of the old city wall between St Augustine's Gate and Magdalen Gate. Fragments of the wall are still visible to the rear of Magpie Road in Catherine Wheel Opening, which runs from St Augustine's Street to an alleyway at the side of the Magpie pub.

 Malzy Court A secluded group of almshouses at the bottom of Chatham Street opposite the Gildencroft Quaker Burial Ground. The eight small late Victorian dwellings known today as Malzy Court were built at a cost of £1,700 as almshouses of Cooke’s Hospital, a charitable institution established in 1692 by brothers Thomas and Robert Cooke. The charity's original foundation was in Rose Lane but redevelopment in the 1890s forced it to find a new location and the Gildencroft was chosen. At the opening ceremony in 1892 the oldest resident, a Mrs Wallbank, was given her choice of cottage then each of the other seven elderly women were called up in alphabetical order to choose their home. In the early 1970s the empty buildings and courtyard were purchased from the City Council by Norwich estate agent Frank Potter, who renamed the area Malzy Court after his grandfather Amand Malzy, whose ancestors came from the village of Malzy in northern France. Cooke's Hospital charity was transferred to Doughty's Hospital, where there is now a Cook'e Court. 

 Mereholt The Mereholt was a wooded area located roughly where Botolph Street meets Anglia Square. Its name possibly means the pool in a wood or the boundary wood. The wood itself seems to have disappeared by the beginning of the 14th century and was last mentioned in a record of 1506.

 Middle Street See St George's Street.

 Nichols Yard Located between 19 and 21 St Augustine's Street (east side). Its entrance can still be seen and it still has a name plate even though it is currently blocked at its St Augustine's Street end. The yard behind widens out into a courtyard where there are still four occupied dwellings. It isn't known why it was called Nichols Yard, though interestingly Nichols Brothers bakers and confectioners were located just across the street from the early 20th century to the 1960s.

 Nunns Yard This was located between 31 and 33 St Augustine's Street (east side). The entrance can still be seen between Convenience 1st newsagents (currently closed) and a boarded-up premises, formerly Blake's butchers. The Nunn family seem to have run a number of businesses from their premises here in the mid-19th century, including a hairdressers, a seed merchants and an insurance agents.   

 Oak Street See St Martin's at Oak Street.
 
 Parsonage houses In 1597 Bishop Redman’s 'Visitation' (i.e. a tour of inspection of Norwich Diocese's property by church officials) found St Augustine’s parsonage houses ‘greatlie ruinous and redie to fall downe’. It is possible that these dwellings for the use of thr rector and his curate were located on the north side of the churchyard, perhasp behind what is now known as Wine Cooper's Arms Yard. There is a blocked up door on the inside of the north wall of the church where the rector may once have entered from the rectory.

 Pynfalde, The A pound or 'penfold' for cattle or horses which once stood at the Botolph Street end of Middle Street.  

 Pitt Street This street, which runs from the St Crispins Road roundabout to its junction with St Augustine's Street, has had a number of name changes over the centuries. Before the Inner Ring Road was built in the early 1970s it stretched as far as St Mary's Plain over what is now regarded as the southern end of Duke Street. St Olave's (or Olaf's) church stood on the east side of this street until 1546 when it was demolished. Because its proximity this street was sometimes known as Tooley Street (Tooley being a mispronounciation of '[S] tOlave').  A large rubbish pit was here, at the east end of the churchyard, gave rise to its other name, Pit Street, which in turn was gentrified into Pitt Street (see Chatham Street and Cherry Lane). Shoemaker John F. Kirkby had a factory here.    

 Prince of Wales Yard This yard is located on the south side of 39 St Augustine's Street, which is currently the premises of the Private Shop but which was once the Prince of Wales pub. The yard is now gated but one can still see into it from the street. 

 Robert Terrace Block of Victorian terraced housing on south side of Esdelle Street. A stone plaque above one of the houses reads 'Robert Terrace 1886'. 

 Quaker Burial Ground Located at the southern end of Chatham Street. The Norwich Society of Friends (Quakers) bought this plot in the Gildencroft from the Great Hospital of St Giles in 1650. Click here for more information. 

 Quaker Burial Ground passageway Before Sussex Street and Chatham Street were built in the 19th century access to the Quaker Burial Ground was difficult. The Quakers therefore took out a lease on a narrow strip of land between St Martin's Lane and the Gildencroft just wide enough for a wagon bearing a coffin to be led to their Burial Ground. A crescent was added between the entrances to the Friends' Meeting House and the Burial Ground to allow the wagon and its horse to turn around. This can still be seen today between the entrances to the Treehouse Chidrens' Centre and the Quaker Burial Ground. The Quaker Burial Ground passageway itself, or part of it, can also still be seen: it now forms the entrance lane to Malzy Court (formerly Cooke's Hospital almshouses).   

 Quaker Lane This lane once ran between St Martin's Lane (also known as Whores Lane) in the south to the Gildencroft in the north. It was originally known as Gildencroft Lane and was in reality a very narrow footpath between two plots of land. It acquired its present-day name Quaker Lane because of its proximity to the Friends (Quakers) Meeting House, built in 1699, and the adjoining Quaker Burial Ground (purchased by the Quakers in 1650). The construction of ther Inner Ring Road in the early 1970s cut off the north end of Quaker Lane from its southern portion. 

 Queen Adelaide Yard Located on east side of Pitt Street near Morris Printers, somewhere between Nos 53 and 57, presumably named after the Queen Adelaide pub, demolished in 1967. 

 Ragged School Yard See Anguish's Boys Charity.    

 Rose Yard This is or was the largest 'yard' in St Augustine's parish and reputedly the largest in Norwich. More of a street in its own right than a yard, its entrance can be found between 7 and 9 St Augustine's Street. The archway here is wide enough to drive a horse and coach through, which is what it was in fact designed to do as the building on its south side here was formerly the Rose Inn, an establishment which had been in existence on this site since the 14th century. The north side of the yard here was occupied in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the premises of De Carle's Drug Stores, who producd their own bottled fruit drinks and cough linctus in buildings at the back of the shop. Rose Yard stretched right over to Edward Street and contained rows of two- and three-storey tenaments with passageways to smaller yards behind. The yard also contained at one time a boot factory and a Primitive Methodist chapel. For more information click here.       

 Royal Oak Yard This yard was located between 54 and 64 St Augustine's Street (west side) beside the Royal Oak public house. There must have been at least five small dwellings here at one time to account for the jump in numbers from 54 to 64. The yard itself housed stables and a licensed 'shoeing smith' until well into the 1950s.

 St Augustine's Church Alley This runs between the junction of Pitt Street and St Augustines' Street and the Gildencroft. St Augustine's churchyard is on its north side and a row of 16th-century cottages said to be the longest surviving terrace of dwellings of this age in England.

 St Augustine's churchyard Large open space around St Augustine's church. In 1894 the Church Commissioners sold the churchyard to Norwich Corporation to allow the space to be made into a public garden of rest. It is currently owned and managed by Norwich City Council.

  St Augustine's Gates A fortified medieval barbican which stood at the top of St Augustine's Street for 500 years; sometimes called St Austin's Gate or Port. Part of the city's northern defences in the Middle Ages when it had a working portcullis, battlements, a catapult and a garrison of guards. In later periods domestic dwellings were built inside and over its top. It was demolished in 1794. The junction of St Augustine's Street, Aylsham Road, Baker Road, Waterloo Road and Magpie Road, is known as St Augustine's Gate.

 St Augustine's Mill Postmill that stood to the north of St Augustine's Gate until the early 19th century, possibly between Patteson Road and Eade Road. Shown on Cleer's plan of Norwich of 1696.

 St Augustine's Road The former name of the southern end of Aylsham Road where it forms a junction with four other roads - Bakers Road, St Augustine's Street, Waterloo Road (formerly Infirmary Road) and Magpie Road. St Augustine's School stood on its north side. 

 St Augustine's Street Named after the church of St Augustine which stands on its west side, this street is both the parish's high street and one of the main arterial roads of Norwich's northern city centre. It runs between its junction with Pitt Street and Botolph Street in the southeast to St Augustine's Gate in the north. In the 18th century is was generaly known as St Austin's Street - Austin being an abbreviated form of Augustine popular at that period. It is one of Norwich's eight saint streets.

 St Austin's Croft This rare placename appears on a plan of Norwich dated 1746 that was printed to accompany Robert Blomefield's Topographical History of Norfolk. A square area of about one acre is shown on the east side of St Augustine's Street (roughly where Esdelle and Leonard Street are now) with the title 'Croft of the Rector of St Austin's - St Austin's Croft'. Presumably glebe land, part of the rector of St Augustine's living or benefice.     

 St Austin's Street See St Augustine's Street. 

 St George's Street This street used to run from St Andrew's Street to Botolph Street. It has also been known by several other names: Middle Street, Blackfriars Bridge Street, the Gildengate, and going back even further, as the Mereholt, a wood that once covered most of the present-day Anglia Square area. When the Inner Ring Road and Anglia Square were constructed in the late 1960s/early1970s, the northern portion of St George's Street was cut off from its southern half. The isolated northern part was then redesignated as part of Botolph Street. This small stretch of road is unusual in still being largely paved with cobbles rather than tarmac.

 St Martin's at Oak Street This street, usually known simply as Oak Street, once ran between Westwick Street on the south bank of the River Wensum and Aylsham Road in the north. Today it is regarded postally as three or four distinct streets: Coslany Street (at its southern end), Oak Street (south of the Inner Ring Road), Oak Street (north of the Inner Ring Road) and St Martin's Road (at its northern end). Its name derives from St Martin's at Oak church, which had a large hollow oak tree in its churchyard in which there was an icon of the Virgin Mary. 

 St Martin's at Oak Wall Lane This narrow lane runs between St Martin's at Oak Lane and St Augustine's Street along the route of the city wall, substantial fragments of which can be seen here. The lane traverses areas of the Gildencroft within the city wall known as the Folly Grounds and the Jousting Acre.

 St Martin's Cockey This small stream once ran from St Martin's churchyard west into the River Wensum.

 St Martin's Lane This lane used to run between Oak Street (or St Martin at Oak Street as it was formerly known) and Pitt Street. The construction of the Inner Ring Road in the early 1970s reduced the lane to a cul-de-sac. Its name derives from St Martin's-at-Oak church also known as St Martin's Coslany. St Martin's Lane also had another name, one which has attracted much curious attention, namely Whores Lane. It has been suggested that rather than being a lane associated with prostitutes, Whores Lane derives from an Old English expression 'Horslane' meaning 'dirty road' or possibly even 'boundary road'. St Martin's Lane or Whores Lane marks the southern boundary of the Gildencroft.  

 Sovereign House See Sovereign Way.

 Sovereign Way Passage way between the southeast corner of Anglia Square and Magdalen Street. Sovereign House, built in the late 1960s, overlooks Anglia Square opposite this passage. Until the mid-1990s it housed offices of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), hence presumably 'Sovereign'. 

 Staller's Lane  Lane named after local merchant John Staller during the reign of Elizabeth I. It possibly ran between Pitt Street and St Augustine's Street.

 Stonemasons Court A small court of houses off the east side of St Augustine's Street. A faded painted advertisement for Arthur Hall, Stonemason, can still be seen on the wall of a house adjacent to the court. Another local stonemason, Arthur Woods, also had premises in St Augustine's Street. Also known as Stone Court.

 Sussex House Office block off Sussex Street. Used as an office of Norwich Union insurance (Aviva) until 2008 and formerly a shoe factory (making Clarkes "K" Shoes). Its entrance lane was once known as Eagle Opening (see above), probably because of its proximity to the Spread Eagle public house. The land here was a nursery until the early 20th-century.

 Sussex Street This long, broad and very straight street runs between St Augustine's Street in the east and Oak Street in the west. It began to be developed in the 1820s over land sometimes known generally as the Gildencroft and more specifically as The Lathes, farmland owned by the Great Hospital of St Giles in Bishopsgate since the late Middle Ages, which by the late 18th century had been parcelled up and either sold or leased in lots. A plan of the estate from about 1770 doesn't show a footpath or even a field boundary along the approximate route that Sussex Street would take fifty years later. It may be that in the intervening years the land here was further subdivided and leased or sold off to private buyers. The buildings on Sussex Street are quite varied and this probably reflects that fact that the were built by different developers at different times. A stone plaque on the south side of the street above nos 6 & 8 has the date 1824 and the initials B.H.J. It is not known who or what these letters stands for. Another stone plaque, almost opposite, high up above no. 1, bears the street's name, Sussex Street. Such stone street names are very rare. About half way up on the north side of the street is the Spread Eagle public house, which has stood here since the 1840s and has always been a pub. The street had junctions with Eagle Opening and Ebenezer Terrace on its north side and Cross Street and Chatham Street on it south. Almost all of the originally buildings at its Oak Street end have disappeared and been replaced by modern council flats and commercial buildings. Why the street was named Sussex Street is a bit of a mystery. In the 19th and early 20th centuries there was a pub named the Duke of Sussex at the St Augustine's Street end of Susex Street. There was also a pub named the Sussex Arms nearby in Botolph Street. No connection between this area and Sussex or the Duke of Sussex has yet been discovered. The ducal peerage of Sussex was created in 1801 by George III for his sixth son, Prince Augustus Frederick. He died without issue in 1843 and the peerage became extinct. 

 Tabor's Folly See Folly Ground.

 Talbot Square 1950s-built council flats on three sides of a railinged green. Presumably named after Talbots Yard, which is just to its west. The Hebrew Congregation Cemetery is located at its southeast corner. 

 Talbot's Yard Located on the east side of Oak Street in a row of 17th-century weavers' cottages  (nos 98-108). It isn't certain how it got its name. As there are no records of a tavern called the Talbot here, the yard is presumably named after someone called Talbot. Nearby Talbot Square was presumably named after this yard.
Talbots Yard is next door to Dog Yard. There were two other yards. Goat Yard and Baldwin's yard, here but they are no longer named.
 
 Tofts Garden This stood roughly where a car park is now located at the end of Chatham Street, though originally covering a somewhat larger area (over two acres) bordered by the Gildencroft Quaker Burial Ground in the north, Quaker Lane in the west and St Martin's Lane in the south. It is named 'Tofts Garden and Orchard' on a plan of the Gildencroft made in about 1770. Whether by coincidence or not, there are still a few apple trees bordering this car park.

 Tooley's Street See Pitt Street.

 Tut Hill This small hill, also known as Tot or Tote Hill, was located in the northwest corner of the Gildencroft near St Martin's Gate. Its name in Old English means 'lookout' hill. Its earliest known documented mention dates from 1291. It may have been a man-made mound designed to form part of Norwich's northern defences or perhaps an accidental structure, composed of earth excavated during the digging of the ditch that fronted the new city wall here.     

 Upper Green Lane Raised roadway in Anglia Square that provides a link between a multi-storey car park and the Inner Ring Road. It runs roughly above where Green Lane once stood at ground level linking St George's Street with Calvert Street. Apparently Green Lane was named after a lawyer who lived here.

 Watering, The Lane off St Martin's Road near the east bank of the River Wensum.

 Whores Lane See St Martin's Lane.

 Wine Coopers Arms Yard This yard is located between nos 30 and 32 St Augustine's Street (west side). The Wine Coopers Arms public house was at no. 30. It was known as the St Augustine's Wine Vaults in the 1840s. In common with much of the property in and around the Gildencroft, this premise was owned for much of the 19th century by the Great Hospital of St Giles or its charitable successors. The pub ceased trading in 1936. Originally the yard lead to a small group of dwellings behind the pub, but there is now a passage way though the yard to The Lathes.

 Winters Yard Lost yard on east side of Pitt Street near No. 84.