Just below this still fashionable hotel is the "Three Mariners" with its "four-centred Tudor arch over the entrance". The original inn has vanished, but the present one occupies its site. On the opposite side of the way stands the "Phoenix", but risen again from her ashes since it was the scene of Jenny's last dance in one of the Wessex Poems:—
"'Twas Christmas and the Phœnix Inn
Was lit by tapers tall,
For thirty of the trooper men
Had vowed to give a ball,
As "Theirs" had done (fame handed down)
When lying in the self-same town,
Ere Buonaparte's fall".
PUDDLETOWN