In the Middle Ages, anyone who reached Beverley Minster and clung to the frith stool near the high altar was under the church's protection — a sanctuary right granted in the tenth century and unusually generous in extent. Stones set roughly a mile from the Minster on each of the main approach roads marked the outer boundary of the sanctuary zone.
A handful of the original sanctuary stones survive, set into walls or fields around the edges of the town. They are easily overlooked and only sporadically signposted, but for anyone interested in the workings of medieval English law they are an unexpectedly tangible piece of evidence. The tourist information office at the Champney Treasure House can point you to the easiest to find.