East Bight, a back street dating from 1150 that skirts the former defences to the East and North of Roman Lincoln. The street starts at Newport Arch, Bailgate and finishes at Lincoln Cathedral. It also formed the boundary of the parishes of St Margaret on the north and east, and St Paul and St Mary Magdalene on the south. In Lincoln Lincolnshire. East Bight has held many names over the years including Bight Lane, Beight End, Thomas a Becketts Lane, Tom a Beight Lane, Bit Lane, Turn-a-Back Lane, Tomabeck Lane. "Bight" means "bend" or land in the bend".

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