The busy Leicester city centre street with a dark past and how others got their names
There s a dark history behind Gallowtree Gate
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Today, Leicester s Gallowtree Gate is a busy street, home to shops and offices and, until lockdown hit, it was one of the city s main retail destinations.
A walk down the street nowadays is very different to the journeys some unfortunates took hundreds of years ago - because, as the name suggests, Gallowtree Gate has a macabre past.