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Coventry but where?

Postby Jock Strapp » Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:49 pm

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Re: Coventry but where?

Postby Melisandre » Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:02 pm

Priory Street.
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Re: Coventry but where?

Postby dutchman » Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:05 pm

That's the top end of Priory Street Jock looking towards Pool Meadow with the Cathedral graveyard on the left and the entrance to New Street on the right.

EDIT: Melisandre beat me to it! :smile:
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Re: Coventry but where?

Postby Jock Strapp » Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:18 pm

Yeah, got it now, what a dip stick. I was thinking that the churchyard was St Peter's in Canterbury St but couldn't get my head around Canterbury St was sloping the wrong way. :jester:
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Re: Coventry but where?

Postby dutchman » Tue Oct 23, 2018 4:05 pm

For anyone unfamiliar with the area this is the earliest high resolution map I could find of it, dating from about half a century later:

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