Market Square

The square sits at the historic centre of the settlement, where meeting house, market and commerce collected. Successive fires and rebuilding campaigns in the early nineteenth century left the brick blocks that define the space today. Specific dates and attributions should be confirmed against National Register documentation before publication.

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Three- and four-storey brick commercial blocks with regular window rhythms, granite lintels and storefronts inserted at ground level. The steeple provides the vertical accent; everything else is deliberately horizontal and continuous.

• The best single view of how the downtown is organised
• Coffee, bookshops and street-level browsing within one block
• The natural starting point for the architecture walk
• Evening light on the brick façades from the west

1. 01

   Begin in the square

   Stand with the steeple behind you and read the building line — note where later storefronts were cut into older brick.

2. 02

   Walk one block toward the river

   The commercial grain loosens and the ground drops; warehouses replace shopfronts.

3. 03

   Return through the side lanes

   Narrow service alleys show the back-of-house history of the block.

• — Morning coffee before the square fills
• — Counter lunch within a two-minute walk
• — Late drink in a brick-vaulted room off the square

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