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The limestone cliffs overhanging on the left of the photograph shade clumps of water-loving butterbur, the leaves of which were once used to keep butter cool and fresh.

We can see the school chapel beyond the open gates to the left of the Butter Cross. This area, including the row of cottages, was known as Chapel Close.

The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.

The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.

The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.

The princess loved to entertain her friends here with tea and cakes, and butter and cheese made in the dairy from Danish cows which she had brought over from her homeland.

Butter was sold in the former, poultry in the latter.

The village is blessed with fine country houses as well as more modest cottages, built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

below: STROUD, Butter Row, Old Pyke

Customers at the corner shop in c1955 would have paid 4d for a 14oz loaf, 1s 3d for a 3lb bag of flour, and 2s 6d for 1lb of butter.

To the left of Carfax there used to be a 'pennyless bench' where beggars sat and women sold butter.

The demolition of the Butter Market provided a site for the granite war memorial.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

It was a busy port, and its ancient market goes back to Edward the Confessor - it was celebrated for its Butter Market.

Buttermere takes its name from Old English, and means 'the lake by the dairy pastures'—where the butter is made.The farmstead of High Stile is still in the same business a thousand years later.

As the photograph clearly illustrates, the church was gloriously over-sized and over-opulent for an area dependent on butter, cheese and a little fishing.

Inside, you could buy almost anything: there was paraffin, bacon, and butter in a glass cabinet, and sweets in glass jars.

Edwin Rule was described at the time as a grocer, draper and egg and butter dealer. Note the thatched roof near the church.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

On the southern part of the market is the old Town Hall or Market House; the original open arcade on the ground floor was used as a butter and poultry market.

Over on the left there used to be a 'pennyless bench', where women sold butter and beggars scrounged a few shillings from passers-by.

Over on the left there used to be a 'pennyless bench', where women sold butter and beggars scrounged a few shillings from passers-by.

The board against the column of the 1689 Butter Cross (right) is advertising a Lambert's Coaches circular tour of Southwold and Lowestoft.

Butter Row School, in the foreground, stands detached some distance from the community it served. It closed more than a generation ago. Thrupp clings to the hillside on the left.