High Street · Marlborough
Tea Where the Suffragettes Met
Have a cream tea in a tearoom that's been serving Marlborough since 1912.
- ⏱ 20 min
- 💷 £
- 🥾 Easy
Polly's has been pouring tea on the High Street since 1912, opened by two women — one a leading suffragette — as a safe place for women to meet. A fire gutted the upper floors in 1966; the ground-floor tearoom survived and never stopped serving.
What you’ll do
- 1Find Polly's
- 2Order a cream tea
- 3Prove it
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Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0
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