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MILL TOWN, resplendent with Victorian architecture, including covered Borough Market and Town Hall designed by Sir Charles Barry. Older buildings include the Union Cross Inn - first recorded as an inn in 1535. See also the reconstructed Gibbet where thieves were beheaded - some 53 victims from 1541 to 1650. Nearby Wainhouse Tower originally a mill chimney but with decorative upper balconies added later, this elegant folly is open for ascent on high days and holidays