11. The inn also incorporates a former cottage to its rear built on a burgage plot. 12. Wickwar displays the characteristics of a market town with a wide High Street and burgage plots. 13. The land ownership had by now passed to a form of tenure known as a burgage . 14. In a small burgage borough, a patron who bought all the burgages had absolute control. 15. In Low Burgage is the local Methodist Chapel, on a road which leads to Winteringham Haven. 16. The gable ( narrow ) end of a house on a burgage plot usually faced the street. 17. Since burgage properties could be bought and sold, these were the easiest boroughs for wealthy patrons to control. 18. The most influential figure was Sir John Peachey owned 40 and there were more than 70 independent burgage holders. 19. On 9 June 1405 Chichele was admitted, in succession to his father, to a burgage in Higham Ferrers. 20. The historical layout of central Morpeth consists of Bridge Street and Newgate Street, with burgage plots leading off them.
