GAZETTEER OF MARKETS AND FAIRS TO 1516:
INTRODUCTION
APPENDIX
III
PLACES WITH MARKETS OR FAIRS c.1600, BUT NOT RECORDED IN
THE GAZETTEER
1. Places
identified as market towns in Everitt's list1
Cambridgeshire
Littleport
Cheshire
Middlewich
Sandbach
Cornwall
Falmouth
Millbrook
St Ives
Stratton
Cumberland
Alston
Blennerhasset
Whitehaven
Workington
Derbyshire
Dronfield
Devon
Lifton
Membury
North Bovey
Dorset
Cranborne
Gloucestershire
Bisley
Coleford
Falfield
Great Witcombe
Horton
Hampshire
Sandown, Isle of Wight
Lancashire
Blackburn
Cartmel
Colne
Haslingden
Hawkshead
Leigh
Padiham
Poulton le Fylde
Whalley
Kent
Sittingbourne
Leicestershire
Billesdon
Lincolnshire
Beckingham
Dalderby
Ketsby
Stallingborough
Middlesex
Edgware
Northumberland
Bellingham
Shropshire
Shipton
Wem
Somerset
Minehead
St Michael Church
Stogumber
Suffolk
Aldeburgh
Sussex
Worthing
Westmorland
Ambleside
Yorkshire
Askrigg (North Riding)
Halifax (West Riding)
Kettlewell (West Riding)
2. Fairs included in
Harrison's list2
Berkshire
Waltham St Lawrence [10 August] p. 395
Cheshire
Budworth [2 February] p. 392
Middlewich [Ascension, 17 October] p. 396
Sandbach [Wednesday in Whit week, Sunday after
Bartholomew] pp. 394-5
Stanley Leonard [6 November] p. 396
West Chester [24 June, 29 September] pp. 394, 396
Cornwall
St Lawrence by Bodmin [10 August] p. 395
St Pomb's in Cornwall [23 April, 28 June] pp. 393-4
Essex
Belchamp St Paul [30 November] p. 397
Thremhall, manor in Stansted Mountfichet [25 July] p.
395
Tiptree [26 July] p. 395
Hampshire
Weyhill [29 September] p. 396
Hertfordshire
Northchurch [1 August] p. 395
St Giles at the Bush [1 September] p. 395
Huntingdon
Woodhurst [29 June] p. 394
Kent
Cooling [22 July] p. 394
Pluckley [5 December] p. 397
Sandhurst [7 December] p. 397
Lancashire
Blackburn [1 May, the three Lady days, 29
September] pp. 393, 395-6
Preston in Amounderness [15 August] p. 395
Lincolnshire
Grebby [Whitsunday] p. 394
Shropshire
Battlefield, near Shrewsbury [22 July] p.
395
Somerset
Churchingford [25 January] p. 392
Suffolk
Stoke by Clare [Monday in Whit week] p.
394
Yorkshire
Darrington [Monday in Whit week] p. 394
Halifax [24 June] p. 394
Ryhill [Whitsunday] p. 394
Unidentified
'At Pagets, at Bromley'3 [24 August] p. 394
Belinsworth [9 April] p. 393
Bromley [29 June] p. 394
Gargrainge [29 June] p. 394
Lesford [6 November] p. 396
St Anne's [Thursday after Trinity Sunday, 24 June] p.
394
Sappesford [12 March] p. 393
Smalding [14 September] p. 396
Strackstock [24 June] p. 394
Witnall [21 September] p. 396
1. Agrarian History of England and Wales,
iv, ed. J. Thirsk (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 468-75.
2. W. Harrison, The Description of England (Ithaca,
N.Y., 1968).
3. This may be Bagots, near Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire.
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