88-92 High Street and roadway in front
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The timber framed buildings date from about 1500. In the roadway roughly in line with the southern end of the buildings, a statue was erected in about 1630. Known as the Samaritan Woman, it was the figure of a woman holding an urn. Marmaduke Rawdon, the builder of Rawdon House, provided his house with a piped supply of spring water. Finding he had more than sufficient for his needs, he had a conduit laid to the centre of the town for the use of the public and erected the statue with the water flowing from the urn into a pond. The nearby lane, which had been called Honey Lane, became known as Conduit Lane. In 1826, the statue and pond were replaced by a pump and underground tank. The pump was removed in the years before World War II. Since 1987 the Samaritan Woman statue has been sited beside Lowewood Museum.
Cross Conduit Lane.
