Bedfordshire

Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales To 1516. Originally published by List and Index Society, Kew, 2005.

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'Bedfordshire', in Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales To 1516, (Kew, 2005) pp. . British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/list-index-soc/markets-fairs-gazetteer-to-1516/bedfordshire [accessed 25 April 2024]

Bedfordshire

Place name
Date of inception of market
The date of the charter, grant or first recorded mention of the market
Date of inception of fair
The date of the charter, grant or first recorded mention of the fair
1334 Lay Subsidy
The valuation of the town in the Lay Subsidy of 1334
Ampthill 1219 1242
Arlesey 1086 1270 131.5
Aspley Guise 1267 1267 64.06
Beadlow 1293
Bedford 915 195.79
Biggleswade 1214 1229 83.41
Blunham 1314 1314 74.75
Campton 1215 1215
Dunstable 1114 1114 211.62
Eaton Socon 1272 1272 159
Elstow 1133 80
Gastlings 1272
Leighton Buzzard 1086 1208 249.06
Luton 1086 1212 349
Marston-moretaine 1324 1324 182.37
Melchbourne 1264 1264 94.06
Millbrook 1275 1311
Odell 1221 67
Old Warden 1308 1308 50.81
Potton 1202 1227 81.5
Shefford 1225 1312
Silsoe 1318 1318 136.75
Sundon 1315 1315 62.5
Toddington 1218 1218 160.02
Westoning 1303 1303 65.88
Woburn 1245 1245