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Re: Watch Hall??
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 05 November 11 13:10 GMT (UK) »
As I said previously a hall simply describes a stone built dwelling constructed at a time when most of the cottages of the poorer people would have been wattle and daub.  Prior to the emergence of police forces most small towns would have had a night watchman.  It thus seems likely that this would have been his house.

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