We now want to create a performance on Steep Hill, focusing on its physicality to make our piece entirely site specific. Out tutor advised us to stay away from our original division theory, because it is based on an assumption. He advised us to research into Steep Hill itself and to focus on the laborious task of getting up such a steep gradient.
Unfortunately, the only useful information we discovered at the archives was that ‘ the very steep slope in the upper part of the hillside is, in places, about 1 in 6’, and that when Steep Hill was first created ‘a major change in the layout of the settlement in the Lower City took place in the 11th Century, apparently in the generation before the Norman Conquest. These changes included the… laying out of The Straight and Steep Hill’ (Jones et al, 2003, p.204).
I contacted Lincoln Council to find out the exact length of Steep Hill and where it officially begins and ends. Unfortunately, all they could tell me was that Steep Hill officially begins at number 1 and ends at number 65, however looking at the following map, those houses appear to be directly opposite each other. Therefore, they were unable to tell me how long Steep Hill is exactly.
Steep Hill Map
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