The name, the Green, is little bit misleading. It refers both to the primary street nearby and to the region all the more broadly. The zone can be characterized as that toward the south of St Nicholas Church down to the waterfront, limited on the West by the Bow Brig and on the east by the base of St Catherine's Hill. Entryway as a street name derives from a Viking or Norse word, Gata and means 'the best approach to'. In this sense the street name really means the street which prompted the green zone, which presumably lay outside archaic Aberdeen, on the west of the Bow Brig.