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The ‘giant mackerel statue represents a prized catch from our fishing past. The position of the fish suggests that its prodigious weight has caused the wall to bow in. The sculpture is no longer there. All you can see is the top supporting plate in the crinkle-crankle wall (serpentine wall)
Added: 22 September, 2023
Here, in 1643 Cromwell met the local Royalist gentry and captured two cannons together with arms and ammunition. It was a bloodless affair without a shot being fired but he took a dozen prisoners including the vicar (James Rouse) and sent them to prison in Cambridge.
