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Updated: May 6, 2025
The great fortress, as we now see it, was built as a defence against the Scots, and was protected on the northward by the river-valley and a deep ravine, which formerly cut it off from the village, which is as ancient as the fortress, as its quaint old Pottergate Tower attests.
Pottergate was rebuilt in the eighteenth century and crowns a steep street; only four corner-stones marked T indicate the site of Clayport. No trace of Narrowgate remains."
Then Letters Patent were issued for a collection to be made for the object, and at last, forty years after the licence was granted, Alnwick got its wall, and a very good wall it was a mile in circumference, twenty feet in height and six in thickness; "it had four gateways Bondgate, Clayport, Pottergate, and Narrowgate. Only the first-named of these is standing. It is three stories in height.
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