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8. The Bell Inn, 42 Market Place, 1650 - 1750, now Clarks shoe shop.
This was in a part of Wokingham owned by the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral
and an annual rent of 22 pence was paid to Salisbury until an act of
Parliament stopped such payments.
Facing the entrance to the shoe shop, turn right into Rose Street and continue
down the right-hand side.
Look down the street towards All Saints Church, it seems as if someone has
built a house in the road. Rose Street is an example of an enclosed medieval
street. It is probably the town’s oldest street. The street’s original name ‘le
rothe’ meant ‘clearing in the woods’.
The Broad Street end was similarly narrow until the 1960s when it was
widened for traffic access.
Continue along the right-hand side.
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