- That the street Hungate is over 1000 years old!
- The butchers in the Shambles used to dump their waste in Hungate 500 years ago!
- The Romans buried some of their dead in the Hungate area!
- By the start of the 20th century the biggest flour producer in Britain had a huge flour mill in Hungate!
- The Hungate excavation is three times bigger than the Coppergate dig in the 1970s that unearthed the Viking-Age city of Jorvik!
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