A very old part of town with numerous Grade II listed buildings the name as most people know is a corruption of the Dewi’s Street named after St David although previously it had been known as Shut Street.

Travelling south towards Milford the left hand side of Dew Street is bounded by a raised area known as the Pig Bank which for generations had been the site of a monthly pig market which continued up to the early part of the early twentieth century.

Although none remain today at one time or another there were 22 inns and public houses in Dew Street and even in the 1990’s you could still get a drink at the White Lion, the Plaster’s, the Lamb or the Kings Arms.

Superficially much of Dew Street seems unchanged for generations apart from the ever-increasing amounts of traffic. But the lower part of the street was significantly altered in the post war rush to ‘modernise’ with the former butter and fish market demolished in 1951 to cater for the ever increasing amount of traffic. The former Grammar School was demolished in 1964 and the site used for the construction of a new library; the ‘new’ library is itself redundant and earmarked for demolition once new use for the site has been determined