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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