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7 The George, 5 Broad Street, pre-1668, now Sterling Place.
This was an Inn with stables and a
yard.
It was originally called The
Georges.
Cross the road. Opposite is Clarks shoe shop:-
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.
RoseStreet 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.
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