BROMYARD is a former market town in north-east Herefordshire, near the border with Worcestershire on the A44. The town is bypassed by the main road, and has many old and interesting buildings, especially in the High Street and Market Square, including a number of half-timbered pubs.
Peter Manders' painting is of the privately owned Bible House and access to the Market Square. In Bromyard, Minster, Manor and Town', Phyllis Williams tells of the Bible House, which derives its name from an open stream called the Bibble brook that ran across the market place. Its origins probably lie in the Latin bibere, meaning drink, or bibulus, freely drinking.
There was once a Bible Bridge on the north side of the house. The stream has long since gone under ground but can still be seen flowing through the cellar of the Crown and Sceptre Inn in Sherford Street. The house dates from the 17th century and is thought to be infilling of the market square, which was once very much larger.
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