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the Trustees the remainder of the before-mentioned Hill 

 Close, or Hill Parks, the income arising from which was 

 to be applied to the purpose of " reparation of the school 

 buildings." 



A raised causeway extends the whole length of the 

 main street of Dodbrooke ; and in some parts it mounts 

 up to such a height above the roadway that it has been 

 described as "suggestive and provocative of broken bones, 

 being entirely destitute of fence or hand-rail;" and yet we 

 scarcely ever heard of a catastrophe of the kind occurring 

 in this locality. At the foot of this bank is a broad 

 open space of sloping ground, on which the monthly cattle 

 market is held, and where temporary sheep pens are pitched. 

 There were formerly weekly markets, both in Kingsbridge 

 and Dodbrooke; the former granted about the year 1256, 

 and the latter about 1461. Dodbrooke weekly market 

 became obsolete about the close of the last century, after 

 the establishment, in 1773, of a great cattle market, which 

 is still held on the third Wednesday of every month. 

 There is also a fair on the Wednesday before Palm Sunday. 



Whereabouts the Dodbrooke Pillory was situated we 

 know not, but it is left on record that "in the reign of 

 King Henry III., Henry Fitz Alan impleaded Matthew Fitz 

 John, with forty others," for throwing it down. 



In the main street there are two tanyards ; also the 

 station of the Dodbrooke fire engine. There are a few 

 good houses, but the greatest number are small, and some 

 of them very old. 



A parchment deed has been placed in the hands of the 

 writer, relating to buildings in Dodbrooke which are no 

 longer in existence. It is an indenture made the 24th 

 day of December, 1797, between Sir Jonathan Phillipps, 



