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The High Street in Droitwich, Worcestershire

Droitwich Droitwich or Droitwich Spa is a town in Worcestershire, standing on the River Salwarpe. The town stands above massive deposits of salt, and salt has been extracted here since ancient times. Close by the High Street stands a pump now a monument, to the methods used latterly to pump brine from the ground even right in the middle of town, but its other monument to this industry is in the number of shops which appear all higgledy-piggledy with not a vertical or horizontal line in them: a result of the subsidence of the ground beneath. (Read more)