The Great Fire of.....

Marlborough! I wasn't aware that there were any other great fires apart from the London one.... If they had only taken on board what happened here- maybe the London one wouldn't have been so bad.....

Some more information:

On 28 April 1653 the Great Fire of Marlborough started in a tanner's yard and spread quickly eventually after four hours burning the Guildhall, St Mary’s Church the County Armoury, and two hundred and forty four houses to the ground. Fire swept through the Town again in 1679 and again in 1690. This time, an Act of Parliament was passed "to prohibit the covering of houses and other buildings with thatch in the Town of Marlborough". During the rebuilding of the town after the Great Fire of Marlborough in 1653 which destroyed almost the entire town, the high street became what is often claimed to be the widest in England though the actual widest is in Stockton-on-Tees. This wide street allows ample space for the local market.