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The Royal Thorn pub, which took its name from the old farmstead which used to be almost opposite it, where the Mormon temple now stands. The farm was very old, mentioned in documents from the late middle ages as "Regel", which became "Ryle" and thus "Royal". The pub - a classy black-and-white timbered building - built in the '30s was in fact renamed "Royals" but was demolished in 2001 to make way for a peculiarly ugly office block which, as some sop to past heritage, still bears the same name. '