CHAPTER VI.
THE TOWN _The towne of Evesham is meetly large and well builded of tymbre ...
The market is very celebrate_ .-- LELAND, _circ._ 1540.
The town of Evesham consists, by reason of its insular position, of only one thoroughfare.

The river winds round enclosing it on three sides, so that, there being but one bridge, there is no other outlet except towards the north.

There are four principal streets: High Street, which was in all probability an extension of the "celebrate" market along the Worcester and North Road; Vine Street and Bridge Street, both skirting the boundary wall of the abbey precincts, and so probably the oldest in their origin; and Port Street, the main thoroughfare of Bengeworth, forming part of the London road beyond the river bridge.

High Street, Bridge Street, and Vine Street lead from the Market Place, and here we will stand and look around.

On the north side is the "market-sted," "fayre and large" as when Leland viewed it, but now converted to private uses.