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Continue along the Market Place to: -

23. The Wine Vaults, 22 Market Place, 1875 – 1974, now Feather &
Sole, ladies’ clothes and accessories.

This wine and spirit shop had
once sold wine to the church
and it obtained a full licence to
become a public house in
1877, and was named Paul
Holton’s Wine and Spirit
Business. It closed in 1974
soon after it had been acquired
by Morland’s Brewery

Cross the road and walk back up the Market Place with the Town Hall on
your right to: -

24. The Hart 1608 – 1640, 3 – 4 Market Place, now Cancer Research
UK.

Some Inn Keepers had to pay a yearly rent. It is
documented that Mr. Lypperscome paid 9 shillings
and 4 pence in 1629 to the Lord of the Manor of
Sonning.

Turn back and walk down the Market Place to: -

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