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Hammet Street is a street in Taunton, Somerset, England, that runs between the Church of St Mary Magdalene and the town centre. It is named after Sir Benjamin Hammet, who had a bill passed through parliament to allow him to build the street in 1788. The street includes four listed buildings: numbers 4 and 5–8, 9–12, 13–17, and number 18 with 33 Fore Street. The first three buildings are grade II * listed, while the last is grade II listed, and together with the Church of St Mary Magdalene and the listed buildings in Church Square, the English Heritage consider them to "form an extremely important group."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List entry: 4, 5–6 Hammet Street (1276877) )〕 ==History== Sir Benjamin Hammet was born in Taunton around 1736, and was a Member of Parliament for the town from 1782 until his death in 1800.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HAMMET, Sir Benjamin (c.1736-1800), of Wilton House, Sherford, nr. Taunton, Som. and Park Place Farm, Eltham, Kent. )〕 In the late 1780s, a number of Acts of Parliament were passed to make improvement to town and city centres, and Hammet carried such an Improvement Act for Taunton through in 1788. The Act allowed Hammet to purchase two houses on Fore Street, one occupied and the other empty, and demolish them to make way for the new road. The road built ran directly towards the Church of St Mary Magdalene, which had previously been accessible only via a narrow lane. Hammet Street is wide at its narrowest point, designed to allow carriages to travel to the church without endangering pedestrians. In his history of Taunton, Joshua Toulmin describes the terraces along Hammet Street as "handsome houses", and praises the way the street opened up the view of the church from the town centre.〔 The original houses remain, and the ground floors of many are currently used as estate agents.
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