Ware, Hertfordshire - Gazebos on River Lea - postcard c.1990s

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• Picture / Image:  Gazebos on the River Lea, Ware, Hertfordshire
• Publisher: Halcyon of Bushey
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Ware is a town in Hertfordshire, England close to the county town of Hertford. It is also a civil parish in East Hertfordshire district.

Ware has many listed buildings by Historic England, many timber framed, four grade I, fifteen grade II* and 181 grade II,[16] including the remains of a fourteenth-century friary,[17] now the offices of Ware Town Council[18] and a conference, wedding and function venue[19] called Ware Priory and Fletcher's Lea. Recent restoration work has shown that it dates from the thirteenth century. Opposite the priory is the large fourteenth-century parish church of St. Mary. It is known for its elaborate font with large carved stone figures. The town is also famous for its many 18th-century riverside gazebos, several of which have been restored recently.

Ware is also known for the Great Bed of Ware, which was mentioned by Shakespeare. It is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, but from April 2012 until April 2013 it was loaned to the museum in Ware. The bed is 10'9" square and 7'6" high and has reputedly accommodated 12 London butchers and their wives.

Ware is mentioned in The Canterbury Tales. Ware was also the unintended destination of John Gilpin in William Cowper's comic poem.[20]

Some of the buildings along the High Street date back to the 14th century. Ware used to have many coaching inns and passageways between some shops lead to their stables. Many of these passageways also have former maltings. Crib Street has a good sequence of timber-framed buildings which have been restored since the 1970s.[21] Today the town's main employer is GlaxoSmithKline which has large manufacturing and research plants in the town. The Ware company was formerly Allen & Hanburys and has a long connection with the town, with many historical items on view in a section on the company in the Ware Museum. There are also many other small factories.