Abstract
Wells lies on the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills, distanced about 120 miles from London, is the England's smallest and the Somerset's only cathedral city. The Vicars' Close of Wells were established in 1348 by Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury as housings and colleges for the Vicars' Choral of Cathedral. The environmental design of the Vicars' Close provided are, architecturally speaking, and especially from a C20 point of view, most interesting and significant; because here is a planned street - Europe's oldest inhabited street - and a prototyped design of the English terraced houses. These houses are still existed and now of course no longer in their original state although, the street still happily gives one that impression.
