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History

Gilesgate was originally the main street in a settlement associated with the Hospital of St Giles which was sited by the existing St Giles Church. Its Medieval name was Gillygate, and it developed as a "long deeply banked street" down from the moor and the church to the city, which by the eighteenth century was lined with houses.

During the 19th century, several collieries were

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