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TOWN WALL. 233 We offer with diffidence our opinion as to the exact points of junction of the Castle Wall with the Town Wall. On the north the junction was certainly near the Doomsdale prison, and descended thence, in a slightly curved line, behind the " Eagle House," now the property of John Dingley, Esq., to the North Gate. From the North Gate the wall continued over sites occupied to-day by the Bible Christian Chapel, by Northernhaye the residence of the writer, by the Lower Walk along the front of the present Town Clerk's " Cottage," thence through Mount Pleasant, on by the eastern boundary of the Vicarage Garden to Blindhole and the existing South Gate. From the South Gate, in an almost straight line by the modern Madford Lane, to the West Gate ; and from the West Gate, over the sites of Mr. Vivian's dwelling- house, and the Livery Stables below it, to (as we think) the Watch Tower, and there joining the Keep Court wall. The average thickness of the wall was 6 feet, and its top was the promenade of the townfolk. (See ante 219.) Its entire length, inclusive of the Keep Court boundary, exceeded 6 furlongs. Leland says, " The Towne Dunevet otherwise Lawnston is a walled towne ny yn cumpas a myle, but now ruinus. . . . Part of the Castel, standing North-west, ys parcel of the walle of the towne." Portions of the wall still exist at Blindhole and near the South Gate, and, as already stated, near the north-west entrance to the Castle Green. Between the North and South Gates the ground outside the wall sloped rapidly downward ; between the South and West Gates the ground as rapidly ascended " Dunheved hylle." From the West Gate, by the " Dockey," to the Watch Tower the site was almost level. A protecting