Rode (formerly Road) is a village in Somerset, located 5 miles south-west of Trowbridge and 5 miles north-east of Frome, grid reference ST805540.
Facilities in the village include a village school, shop/post office and a cricket club, which was founded in about 1895.
There used to be several mills in the village, one of which has now been converted into The Mill pub. Other pubs in Rode are The Cross Keys and The Bell. Until the 1960s there was a ...
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Rode (formerly Road) is a village in Somerset, located 5 miles south-west of Trowbridge and 5 miles north-east of Frome, grid reference ST805540.
Facilities in the village include a village school, shop/post office and a cricket club, which was founded in about 1895.
There used to be several mills in the village, one of which has now been converted into The Mill pub. Other pubs in Rode are The Cross Keys and The Bell. Until the 1960s there was a brewery, the site of which is now a housing development, as is the site of the Tropical Bird Gardens, which closed in 2000. Both developments were strongly objected to by the original local village community.
Formerly a market town, Rode rose to prominence as a trading centre on the ceremonial borders of Wiltshire and Somerset. The first mention of Rode appears to be in the Domesday Book: the old village was positioned around St Lawrence's church along the main thoroughfare (known as Rode Major). However, many parts of the old village have...
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