Cart Score
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Also known as Gallows' Score.
Cart Score gets its name from the fact that it has always been a wide road bringing carts (and nowadays cars and lorries) up from the Beach Village. Gallows' was a rather sinister name but there is no actual proof of a gallows of gibbet. The name is more likely to have come from Mr. Gallows, who at one time lived in the score.
When Cart Score was first used, it was marked at the top by a pile of stones that had already been there for a long time and are still there, just inside the entrance to Belle Vue Park. The stones are thought to have been the base of an original beacon dated 1609 and at one time it is written that one of the Lowestoft witches sat on the stones as people passed by.
