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St. John's Fountain, Cheap Street and Market Place

Below St John's Church stands a large fountain fed by a natural spring. This water flows on down to Cheap Street and provides the famous water-course with its water.

opposite the fountain is the James Gaunt fabric shop with its wide range of smart fabrics and its often outrageous window designs, an up-market shop, high up the hill.

From James Gaunt there are three roads going down the hill. The one on the right is King Street and the middle one is the lovely medieval Cheap Street (a shop was first to be found here in about 1500 AD).

Cheap Street is most famous for its water-course, a common sight in medieval times where shopkeepers would both wash and prepare their produce and throw their waste! Now, small children jump across the fast flowing narrow stream and the sound of the babbling brook accompanies the bustle of one of Frome's most popular shopping streets.

Proceeding down Cheap Street, avoiding falling into the water-course, you come to the Market Place. This wide street is always busy, with buses, cars, pedestrians, shoppers and so on. Every Saturday there is a small market selling flowers, organic vegetables, jewellry etc. This is the centre of Frome.

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