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Tuthill Stairs
These stairs are no longer marked with a sign indicating their name. Recently rebuilt and modernised as part of the Quayside Lofts project. Tuthill Stairs is now a modern connection between Close and Clavering Place providing a passage between the new apartment blocks west of the High Level Bridge.
There are approximately 128 stairs. A high point, at the top of where the stairs stand, used in Medieval times to be a lookout point for invaders. There are still a network of paths higher up which give good views of the Quayside.
A local word for keeping a look out is “keeping toot” – thus Tuthill Stairs or toot hill.
Tuthill Stairs
These stairs are no longer marked with a sign indicating their name. Recently rebuilt and modernised as part of the Quayside Lofts project. Tuthill Stairs is now a modern connection between Close and Clavering Place providing a passage between the new apartment blocks west of the High Level Bridge.
There are approximately 128 stairs. A high point, at the top of where the stairs stand, used in Medieval times to be a lookout point for invaders. There are still a network of paths higher up which give good views of the Quayside.
A local word for keeping a look out is “keeping toot” – thus Tuthill Stairs or toot hill.