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"Shambles" is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market.Streets of that name were so called from having been the sites on which butchers killed and dressed animals for consumption (One source suggests that the term derives from "Shammel", an Anglo-Saxon word for shelves that stores used to display their wares, [2] while another indicates that by AD 971 "shamble" meant a ...
Shambles is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market. Shambles or The Shambles may also refer to: The Shambles, a historic street in York, England; Shambles, a reconstruction of butcher's market stalls in Shepton Mallet, England; Shambles Square, Manchester, England; Shambles Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
27–28 The Shambles is a historic pair of buildings in York, England. Grade II listed , parts of the structures date to the mid-19th century, with alterations occurring over the next hundred years. [ 1 ]
35 The Shambles is a historic building in York, England. A Grade II* listed building , part of the structure dates to the mid-14th century, with an extension added the following century. The ground floor was rebuilt in variegated brick in Flemish bond; the two upper levels are rendered.
10–11 The Shambles is a historic pair of buildings in York, England. Grade II* listed buildings, they are located in The Shambles. [1]The building was the 16th-century home of Margaret Clitherow, who was executed as a recusant in 1586 and canonised in 1970.
Shambles Square is a square in Manchester, England. It was created in 1999, when The Old Wellington Inn and Sinclair's Oyster Bar were rebuilt there, having been moved from the Old Shambles nearby as part of major building works in the city following the 1996 Manchester bombing .
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46–47 The Shambles is a historic pair of buildings in York, England. Grade II listed , parts of the structures date to the mid-18th century, with a shopfront added in the late 19th century. [ 1 ]