Overview
It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and kept its trade until the twentieth century; the overhang was built that way to keep the sun off the meat, and the wide sills below the windows are where it was laid out. The shops are now given to fudge, Harry Potter merchandise and small crafts, and the street is so photographed that walking it at midday in summer is slow going. Adjoining Shambles Market is a proper open market and the better place to actually buy something.
Highlights
Come before nine or after six; the street is genuinely impassable in between. Look up, not ahead — the timber framing and the jettied floors are the point. The Minster is three minutes away and the city walls five.