Properties on West Side of High Street in 1618

(North of Mariners Street)

• Moving from North to South.
• Occupying former agricultural land and of freehold tenure.
• All properties fronting the High Street.

East end of the North Field  

1. John Burgis - house, garden & adjoining arable enclosure (seven-eighths of an acre).

2. Agnes Eastgate - two houses & adjoining garden (half-acre).

Church Way interposing (now St. Margaret’s Road)

3. Thomas Bury - house, curtilage & garden (one acre).

4. William Canham - house and adjoining croft (one-and-a-half acres).

Fly’s Lane interposing (now High Street end of Jubilee Way)

5. William Rooke - house.

6. Robert Cooe - house & garden (quarter-acre).

7. William Wilde - house & garden.

8. Francis Linsey - house and garden.

9. Lord of the Manor - house called “The Dolphin” & adjoining garden.

Passageway, later, at about this point

10. Anthony Hobert Esq. - house called “The Dolphin” & adjoining garden (one acre). 

[Some kind of repetitive error re “The Dolphin” ? - can’t be both.]

11. Ralph Wells - house & garden.

12. James Holmes - house & garden.

13. John Lound - house & garden (one acre).

14. Gislam Wolhowse - house, garden & croft (one acre).

15. John Tyler - house & garden.

16. William Mayhewe - house [corner plot].

West Lane/Mendham Lane interposing (later Swan Lane & now Mariners Street)

CREDIT:David Butcher