Snickelway

Soak up the city's history while exploring its maze of ancient streets and snickelways (hidden alleyways); you can get everywhere on foot and see many attractions in just a day.

True, as you worm your way deeper into the Old Town, the streets become narrower and more labyrinthine, connected by a capillary system of snickelways and side courts, where the gable-overhangs become so extreme that daylight bareley hits the cobblestones below.

Follow Main Street, heading for St Mary’s Church, then go left down a snickelway (7) past the churchyard, which contains a railed obelisk in memory of Dr John Crosby, a good friend of Branwell Bronte.