Walters Yard, BR1

Place Name

Named after John Walter who ran a smithy here. Until the end of the 18th Century this part of the High Street from The Bell Inn northwards, was comprised land for Grete House. In 1797 a temporary concentration camp called Prison Yard was built here on lands of the former Grete House to house French prisoners of war.

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