At sometime in the past there was a significant jewish population, with a synagogue and Jewish schools, as well as a residence for the area's Rabbi.
A torah scroll from the vanished Jewish community has survived and now rests in the Harrow and Wembley Progressive Synagogue in Harrow, a northwest suburb of London.
An additional torah scroll, No. 1,192 that was rescued from the Holocaust, is at the Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center in Phoenix, Arizona.