The North England town of Beverley is named after what creature?
Beverley grow greatly. The name of the town was changed to Bevreli or "Beverlac", meaning beaver-lake or beaver-clearing, in the 10th century; a reference to the colonies of beavers in the River Hull at the time. The last three Anglo-Saxon archbishops of York helped Beverley to develop, via the rise in prominence of Beverley Minster and the town in general; along with York itself, Ripon and Southwell, Beverley became one of the most important Christian centres of Northern England. Aldred was declared by king Edward the Confessor as "sole Lord of the Manor of Beverley". Beverley developed as a trade centre,
Beverley town walls example in England of a brick-built town gate". The gatehouse is protected as a grade I listed building. Beverley town walls Beverley's town walls are a sequence of defensive structures built around the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In the early medieval period, the town of Beverley was not walled. A "great ditch", later called Bar Dike, had been built on west side of the town by 1169, and by the 13th century there was a handful of formal gateways to the town: North Bar, South Bar (later called Keldgate Bar). In 1322, however the