Fenkle Street

A street so called in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, lying in a part of the town formerly much occupied by garden ground, and *in the immediate vicinity of the house of the Dominican Friars there*. Also, a way or passage inside the town wall, and leading between that fortification and the *house of the Carmelites or White Friars*, was anciently called by the same name. The name of *Fenkle* or *Finkle Street* occurs in several old towns in the North, as Alnwick, Richmond, York, Kendal, &c. *Fenol* and *finugl*, as also *finul*, are Saxon words for *fennel*; which, it is very probable, has in some way or…