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Chesham Road, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 3AG

This was the house in the High Street where John Incent, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, and founder of Berkhamsted School in 1541, lived. Incent was born c 1480 and died in 1545.

129 is a Grade II* Listed 16th century timber framed house. The first owner, John Incent, Dean of Saint Paul's, founded Berkhamsted Grammar School. 127 is a Grade II Listed house of 1832 probably incorporating elements of an older building. Carved with FM 1832 it is possibly the property of upholsterer Frederick Miller who established his business in the town between 1822 and 1826 and is listed in High Street in 1841. Kelly's 1895, 1899, 1902 and 1908 lists 'International Tea Co., 127 High st' under Great Berkhamsted but 127 is not found in 1914. The Type K6 Telephone Kiosk is Grade II Listed and was a type designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935.

Grade II Listed as late 17th or early 18th century The Kings Arms is first recorded in the 18th century but was most famous for being frequented by Berkhamsted-born author Graham Greene. As a major staging post for travellers The King’s Arms became the principal inn of the town with a capacity to stable up to forty horses. It was also said to be the backdrop to a bit of debauchery from the King of France Louis XVIII, who reputedly used to sleep with the Landlord's daughter, Polly Page. James Snook, a highwayman, was an ostler here. He was hanged for his crimes on Boxmoor in 1802. The arms on the sign are not in fact those of any king but of Queen Anne.

This street was formerly called Snob's Alley. It still bears a rather run-down appearance as it did in 1966 see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1763981

Grade II Listed in 1973 this Wetherspoon pub was first recorded as The Crown in 1743. The building probably dates from the 16th century and has been a pub ever since. By 1790, The Crown became The Chaffcutters. By 1850, it had become the Crown again. It was The Crown in the 1970s but after the apparently eccentric landlord Bill Agate left it became the Alcock and Brown, Galleria and by 1995 Cheerleaders only to revert to The Crown by 1998.

A Wetherspoon pub and restaurant on High Street

137 and 139 are Grade II Listed. 139 is described by the Town Council as a 16th century inn, one of three old coaching inns which stand side by side in the centre of the town, each with a way through to a yard behind. The Swan is now a meeting place and sheltered accommodation for young people.