Clarks, like many other industrialists of their time, built terraces of model homes for their workers, and provided the village with its civic hall, library , open air swimming pool and theatre, which are all still going strong today. Clarks Village, the first shopping village in the country, attracts three million visitors a year to Street.

Street is also the home of the world-famous Millfield School, which turns out a stream of the country's best sportsmen and women.