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Chares is a Geordie word used for the narrow alley-ways in Newcastle. There used to be about 20 chares which led back from the Quayside in the medieval town (Dark Chare, Grindon Chare, Blue Anchor Chare, Peppercorn Chare, Palester Chare, Colvin's Chare, Hornsby Chare, Plumber Chare, Fenwick's Chare, Broad Garth, Peacock Chare, Trinity Chare, Rewcastle Chare, Broad Chare, Spicer Lane, Burn Bank, Byker Chare, Cock's Chare and Love Lane). The name was also applied to narrow lanes in different parts of the city and other parts of Northumberland.

On the Quayside, they are thought to have arisen from wooden piers built out into the river, between which rubbish was dumped and houses built on the reclaimed land. The buildings alongside the chares were crowded and unpleasant. Many were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1854." (Andrew Curtis, 2010)

Cox Chare

Newcastle City Centre Manor Chare Plummer Chare Austin Chare Broad Chare Broad Garth Cox Chare Denton Chare, Newcastle Grindon Chare Hornsby's Chare Love Lane Painter Heugh Pudding Chare Rewcastle Chare Trinity Chare Tuthill Stairs
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Tyne and Wear HER(10487): Newcastle, Quayside, Broad Garth
- "There were no minor streets or chares running off the Quayside before 1376, although the word "Key" is used four times from 1332 to 1366. From Sandhill to Sandgate there …
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Chare
- "A chare, in the dialect of North-east England, is a narrow medieval street or alley. Chares and much of the layout of Newcastle's Quayside date from medieval times. At one …
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from Keelman's Hospital from Cox Chare
Keelman's Hospital from Cox Chare
- "Cox Chare is now a road which runs from Pandon to the Quayside, to the east of the Law Courts...Chares is a Geordie word used for the narrow alley-ways in …
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In Grinding Chare, Newcastle (1843).
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In Byker Chare, Quayside, Newcastle (1843).
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Manor Chare
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