sometimes called the Back Lane. This singular appellation is a
corruption of Bispetan, Bushpestanes, which may also be a corruption of
Bishop’s Town, or Bishop’s Stone, Beeches Lane, having, it is
conjectured, been either the residence or the property of the bishop of
the diocese, who is said in Domesday book to have possessed sixteen
dwelling-houses in Shrewsbury. The gradual change appears, from old
deeds, to have been in this order—Bispetan, Bipstan, Biston’s Lane,
Beeches Lane. On the left is