 The town itself was small—it was probably confined within a triangle formed on the lines of the present lower Briggate, Kirkgate, and the River Aire, with the parish church at one angle somewhere about, perhaps on, the site of the modern one.The streets would be narrow, unpaved and unlighted.The houses, in spite of the fact that stone is so plentiful in the district, were of wood, whitewashed, in many cases, thatched.