Oddly enough, the Timber Dock is not the dock at the end of Timber Street; that's the Blossom Dock. Timber Street is an old one, which predates the city wall. Logs used to be hauled straight down Timber Street to the dock, and were there sent up or downstream for construction. However, when the city wall was built a coalition of merchants from Forest Street (which was then called Arrow Road) lobbied successfully to have the gate put by their street. It then became much easier for the foresters to bring their wares to the dock at the end of that street. However, the demand for timber became so great that most of the merchants on Arrow Road went out of business because no one wanted to try to get past the carts of timber that were always clogging the street. The thoroughfare was renamed Forest Street, and timber has been hauled down it ever since.