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Staithe Street is a T-junction. On the leftis The Corner HouseThe Corner HouseThis establishment is now a wine bar andrestaurant. It was once a pub called theTewksbury Arms until 1888.andafterwards The Prince of Wales until1964. It is worth a stop here becausealthough the Corner House is essentiallya restaurant three real ales are on tapand you may drink with no obligation toorder food, (although the food menu isvery good!).Cross the street and opposite is TheEdinburgh Hotel,After leaving The Edinburgh, turn sharpleft inland into a broad street that leads toa square and a substantial tree-linedopen green. This is The Buttlands and theposh end of Wells. Butt means a targetand The Buttlands takes its name fromthe time of Henry VIII, when the greenwas used, (as was law at the time) formen to practise archery. Today many fineGeorgian houses and some laterVictorian houses surround the opengreen. There is a choice of two hostelrieson the Buttlands. The first is The Globe,The GlobeSituated at the north end of Buttlands thispub is a large multi roomed Greene Kingestablishment.The second at the far end of the green isThe Crown Hotel,This hotel has a bar and restaurantfacilities on the ground floor plus a smallbeer garden at the rear. Here you canenjoy beers from Adnams or from Fox ofHeacham, a new local brewery opened in2002.The Edinburgh HotelThis pub is considered as one of theoldest pubs in town, and which unusually,has the names of the landlords recordedas far back as 1789. The pub is mucholder than that for its earliest name wasThe Fighting Cocks until the 1840’s whencock fighting was banned. It wasrenamed the Leicester Arms; until itassumed its present name.Finally there is a choice. If you havetravelled by bus you can get the returnbus at a stop just outside The Buttlandson the corner of Mill Road, or alternativelyyou may return back down to the harbourto the bus stop outside the Ark Royal.However, if you are still fresh and wish tocarry on there is one more pub on thesouthern outskirts of town on ChurchStreet, The Bowling Green

The Crown HotelThe Buttlands