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Those are some really small/low walls and your claim that they used to be the best of both England and Europe is... Well, not true. There are many towns in Europe with much more impressive town walls. As an example Perugia in Italy. Walls higher than a 7-8 story building....
I'm going by what contemporaries wrote. John Leland, from whom we know many archaic facts and names in the region, wrote this: “The strength and magnificence of the walling of this town far passeth all the walls of the cities of England and most of the towns of Europe.” The traveller William Lithgow also wrote: “The walls about the town are both high and strong, built both within and without with saxo quadrato, and mainly fenced with dungeon towers, interlarded also with turrets, and along with them a large and defensive battlement. . . . The walls here of Newcastle are a great deal stronger than those of York, and not unlike to the walls of Avignon, but especially of Jerusalem.”
Really good history video.👍
Hey, nice little video. I would be interested in more if you make them.
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Well, I grew up 30 miles away in Billingham, never new Newcastle had this wall. Interesting.
Those are some really small/low walls and your claim that they used to be the best of both England and Europe is... Well, not true. There are many towns in Europe with much more impressive town walls. As an example Perugia in Italy. Walls higher than a 7-8 story building....
I'm going by what contemporaries wrote. John Leland, from whom we know many archaic facts and names in the region, wrote this:
“The strength and magnificence of the walling of this town far passeth all the walls of the cities of England and most of the towns of Europe.”
The traveller William Lithgow also wrote:
“The walls about the town are both high and strong, built both within and without with saxo quadrato, and mainly fenced with dungeon towers, interlarded also with turrets, and along with them a large and defensive battlement. . . . The walls here of Newcastle are a great deal stronger than those of York, and not unlike to the walls of Avignon, but especially of Jerusalem.”