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The Shambles (official name Shambles) is an old street in York, England, with overhanging timber-built shops, now occupied by souvenir shops as opposed to the original butchers). The word shambles comes from shammels, probably from the Anglo-Saxon Fleshammels (literally 'flesh-shelves'), the word for the shelves that butchers used to display their meat. Image:Shambles York. ... Image:Shambles York. ... The Shambles is an Australian television sketch comedy program shown on the community television station C31 Melbourne. ... The Shambles is a US-based powerpop/rock group. ... York is a city in North Yorkshire, England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Butcher shop in Valencia A butcher is someone who prepares various meats and other related goods for sale. ... Shambles is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...

Saint Margaret Clitherow once lived on this street (she was married to a butcher who owned a shop on it). Five Snickelways lead off the Shambles. Saint Margaret Clitherow is a Catholic Saint who was born in 1556 in York, England and died on March 25, 1586 when she was executed in York. ... The Snickelways of York (often misspelt Snickleways) are a collection of small streets and footpaths in the city of York, England. ...

Origin of name

"Shambles" is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market. There are streets named "The Shambles" in some other UK towns (e.g., Worcester, Sevenoaks, Chesterfield and Armagh,) which also got their names from having been the sites on which butchers killed and dressed animals for consumption. The Shambles in Stroud still has the hinged wooden boards attached to the shops, and hosts a regular local market. Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse. ... Kinnikuman character, see Meat Alexandria. ... Look up Market in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... The city of Worcester (pronounced Wuh-ster) is the county town of Worcestershire in England; the river Severn runs through the middle, with the citys large Worcester Cathedral overlooking the river. ... Sevenoaks is a town in the Sevenoaks district of Kent in South East England and forms part of the London commuter belt. ... Chesterfield, see Chesterfield (disambiguation) Chesterfield is a historic market town and local government district in Derbyshire, a county in England. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Butcher shop in Valencia A butcher is someone who prepares various meats and other related goods for sale. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Stroud is a town in the county of Gloucestershire, England. ...

During that period there were no sanitary facilities or hygiene laws as exist today, and guts, offal and blood were thrown into a runnel down the middle of the street or open space where the butchering was carried out. Moving through the resulting mess must have been unpleasant — but then, all forms of household waste were commonly thrown in the street anyway, so perhaps it was less disgusting to the people of that age than it would be during the present era. Hygiene is the primary attraction facet and is commonly understood as preventing infections in personal places through cleanliness. ... // The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract), also called the digestive tract, or the alimentary canal. ... Scrapple sandwich at the Delaware state fair Offal is the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ... Look up Gutter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

By extension, any scene of total disorganisation and mess is now referred to as "a shambles". The word is probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon language. Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...

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• Map sources for The Shambles
• The official Shambles website One of Britain's best preserved medieval streets
• BritainExpress
• This is York
• York Shambles tour Quicktime virtual reality image of the Shambles
• Images of the Shambles on Flickr
• The Shambles York 360°

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