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A History of the County of Durham
… names indicate the habitat of walkers, saddlers, and fleshers. Recent use, however, has merged Fleshergate into …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… east side was called the Flesher Raw, probably because the fleshers, or butchers, had their shops there, as well as on … of flesh, and not of butchers. We had a Flesher Raw, where fleshers lived; and we have still a Butcher Bank, which is inhabited by fleshers or butchers, and contains the shops used for the …