Coggeshall Hamlet and the Hare and Hounds public house. The scene of an infamous event when passers-by thoughtlessly put out a fire before the brigade arrived. A fire a bit further along the road near Pointwell Lane destroyed a substantial house in 1901 and allowed a short-cut to be made which avoided a very winding bit of the road called The Serpentine. A horse so liked the new road that it lay down on it and refused to move.
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