Complex sentence: As recently as 1872, there were twenty-five butchers'shops in the street, but now there are none, although there is still a butcher in the adjacent Little Shambles which leads to York's open-air Newgate Market.
Split into simpler sentences: As recently as 1872 there were twenty-five butchers'shops in the street but now there is none. There is still a butcher in the adjacent Little Shambles which leads to York's open-air Newgate Market.