High Street
The High Street has a wide range of building styles with many of the shop showing how shopkeepers over the years have changed their approach to attracting customers. The newsagents at number 7 is a typical example of an Edwardian shop front.
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Tome Stone
The bottom of the High Street was where the medieval market was held and set into the wall of the corner building on the right is a curiously shaped stone that may be a “tome stone” where merchants created a legal agreement, a tome, by putting money on it. The town pillory was also sited here and the nearby market would have provided an ample supply of unsold fruit and vegetables to throw at anybody unfortunate enough to be sentenced to a day of public disgrace!
Go a short way back up the High Street and turn right into Mill Street.
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