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Street
has a history going back to the Romans and a mentions
in the Domesday Book, but it really got going in 1825
when Cyrus and James Clark opened their shoe factory
and started the business that is now truely multinational.
Clarks shoes still have their headquarters in Street
today.
Clarks, like
many other industrialists of their time, built terraces
of model homes for their workers, and provided the village
with its civic hall, library , open air swimming pool
and theatre, which are all still going strong today.
Clarks Village, the first shopping village in the country,
attracts three million visitors a year to Street.
Street is
also the home of the world-famous Millfield School,
which turns out a stream of the country's best sportsmen
and women.
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