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Download the Oakham Heritage Trail PDF Here an entry into the medieval town. It is late 14th century and was built or or built was and century 14th late is It town. medieval the into entry an as defined in the Highways Act 1980. Act Highways the in defined as church would be wooden with a stone church being built in the 13th 13th the in built being church stone a with wooden be would church This is one of the oldest houses in Oakham and stands next to Bargate, Bargate, to next stands and Oakham in houses oldest the of one is This courtesy of Oakham Congregational Church and is not a public right of way way of right public a not is and Church Congregational Oakham of courtesy around. A church and priest were mentioned at Domesday and the first first the and Domesday at mentioned were priest and church A around. Flore's House Flore's The use of the footpath between High Street and South Street is by by is Street South and Street High between footpath the of use The The fine 14th century spire, crowned by Cock Peter, is a landmark all all landmark a is Peter, Cock by crowned spire, century 14th fine The All Saints' Church Saints' All the castle walls. castle the and a new almshouse built around it. (Not open to the public) the to open (Not it. around built almshouse new a and and the site of the moat and fishponds can still be seen beyond beyond seen be still can fishponds and moat the of site the and in 1597 by Archdeacon Johnson. In 1983 the medieval chapel was restored restored was chapel medieval the 1983 In Johnson. Archdeacon by 1597 in buildings. Most of the other School buildings are north of Station Road. Station of north are buildings School other the of Most buildings. summertime. Formerly it was the outer bailey of Oakham Castle Castle Oakham of bailey outer the was it Formerly summertime. Founded as a charitable hospice by William Dalby in 1399 and re-founded re-founded and 1399 in Dalby William by hospice charitable a as Founded Latin, Greek and Hebrew. South of the church is the School Chapel and other other and Chapel School the is church the of South Hebrew. and Greek Latin, and Church with a fine bandstand where concerts are given in in given are concerts where bandstand fine a with Church and The Chapel of St John and St Anne St and John St of Chapel The still stands in All Saints' churchyard with inscriptions round the walls in in walls the round inscriptions with churchyard Saints' All in stands still Today this is a recreation ground, north of the Old School School Old the of north ground, recreation a is this Today Founded in 1584 by Archdeacon Robert Johnson, the original Old School School Old original the Johnson, Robert Archdeacon by 1584 in Founded Cutt's Close Cutt's Oakham School Oakham building. It featured on Airfix and Hornby boxes. Hornby and Airfix on featured It building. This famous Midland Railway signal box was built in 1899 and is a listed listed a is and 1899 in built was box signal Railway Midland famous This family and now Rutland County Council HQ. Council County Rutland now and family Oakham Signal Box Signal Oakham by peers of the Realm and Royalty passing through Oakham. through passing Royalty and Realm the of peers by to the Museum is Catmose, once the hunting lodge of the Noel Noel the of lodge hunting the once Catmose, is Museum the to It contains over 200 horseshoes given as forfeits to the Lord of the Manor Manor the of Lord the to forfeits as given horseshoes 200 over contains It interesting treasures both historical and archaeological. Opposite Opposite archaeological. and historical both treasures interesting example of an aisled stone hall in the country. the in hall stone aisled an of example cottage is not open to the public. the to open not is cottage arrangement supporting a wide roof span. It houses many many houses It span. roof wide a supporting arrangement architecture in England and is the earliest surviving surviving earliest the is and England in architecture only 18 inches tall but eventually grew to 39 inches. The The inches. 39 to grew eventually but tall inches 18 only roof trusses with central king posts plus a paired crown-post crown-post paired a plus posts king central with trusses roof as one of the finest examples of domestic Norman Norman domestic of examples finest the of one as in this cottage with his brother. For many years he was was he years many For brother. his with cottage this in cavalry regiment raised by the Noels in 1794. It has spectacular spectacular has It 1794. in Noels the by raised regiment cavalry Wakelin de Ferrers between 1180-90. It is recognised recognised is It 1180-90. between Ferrers de Wakelin adventures before returning to Oakham perhaps to live live to perhaps Oakham to returning before adventures indoor riding school for the Rutland Fencibles, a volunteer volunteer a Fencibles, Rutland the for school riding indoor This is the great hall of a fortified manor house built for for built house manor fortified a of hall great the is This Henrietta Maria. He became her page and had many many had and page her became He Maria. Henrietta This famous museum of farming and rural life was once the the once was life rural and farming of museum famous This Oakham Castle Oakham the Duke of Buckingham, King Charles I and Queen Queen and I Charles King Buckingham, of Duke the Rutland County Museum County Rutland was so small that he was served up in a cold pie before before pie cold a in up served was he that small so was county in England'. He was born in Oakham in 1619. He He 1619. in Oakham in born was He England'. in county and lies opposite the Castle Gate. Castle the opposite lies and This excellent library has a particularly good local studies collection. studies local good particularly a has library excellent This Jeffrey Hudson was the 'smallest man from the smallest smallest the from man 'smallest the was Hudson Jeffrey Oakham. The Town Pump was restored in recent years years recent in restored was Pump Town The Oakham. entry to the town was very narrow until widened in the late 1960s. 1960s. late the in widened until narrow very was town the to entry Hudson's Cottage Hudson's At one time there were at least four other crosses in in crosses other four least at were there time one At Built in 1972 on the site of the former Bell Inn at a point where the the where point a at Inn Bell former the of site the on 1972 in Built it was a cross, preaching would occur. would preaching cross, a was it Rutland County Library County Rutland five-hole stocks are a mystery. Once dairy products were sold here and since since and here sold were products dairy Once mystery. a are stocks five-hole and yards. and The famous Butter Cross is shown on Speed's map of Oakham, 1611. Its Its 1611. Oakham, of map Speed's on shown is Cross Butter famous The street, it was crowded and people lived in many side passages passages side many in lived people and crowded was it street, Butter Cross and Pump and Cross Butter Oakham. There were many businesses carried out on this this on out carried businesses many were There Oakham. leading gourmet centre in the East Midlands. East the in centre gourmet leading Dean of Westminster Abbey, once the owner of this part of of part this of owner the once Abbey, Westminster of Dean has many eating places and is widely regarded as a a as regarded widely is and places eating many has going by this route to church, it is actually named after the the after named actually is it church, to route this by going walk and the Maltings have extra attractions. Oakham Oakham attractions. extra have Maltings the and walk Festival takes place in June. in place takes Festival about it. Once known as 'Dead Man's Lane' due to coffins coffins to due Lane' Man's 'Dead as known Once it. about occasional continental market. Across the road Crown Crown road the Across market. continental occasional for the Britain in Bloom competition. Additionally, the renowned Oakham Oakham renowned the Additionally, competition. Bloom in Britain the for This narrow lane, recently enhanced. has a medieval feel feel medieval a has enhanced. recently lane, narrow This added to by the monthly summer Sunday Fayres and and Fayres Sunday summer monthly the by to added afar. From Spring onwards Oakham is full of colour as local people prepare prepare people local as colour of full is Oakham onwards Spring From afar. Dean's Street Dean's weekly markets provide a colourful, lively atmosphere atmosphere lively colourful, a provide markets weekly the busy markets held on Wednesday and Saturday attract visitors from from visitors attract Saturday and Wednesday on held markets busy the George, was an 18th century coaching inn. Twice- inn. coaching century 18th an was George, Several of these streets now contain a variety of shops which together with with together which shops of variety a contain now streets these of Several until the early 1900s. The Whipper-In, formerly the the formerly Whipper-In, The 1900s. early the until Street focus on the market place which is also flanked by the High Street.
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