Dorset

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

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Dorset

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
Abbotsbury 1275 66.39
Ashley 1382
Beaminster 1284 1284 49.5
Bere Regis 1215 1267 123
Blandford Forum 1218 1307 21.5
Bridport 900 99.71
Cerne Abbas 1175 1459 76.06
Charminster 1275 18.5
Charmouth 1278 1278
Corfe 1215 1248 21.5
Dewlish 1264 1264 40.94
Dorchester 979 92.17
East Hemsworth 1304 1304
Evershot 1286 1286
Fordington 1355 1355 75.17
Frampton 1351 1351 48.56
Friar Waddon 1382
Hanford 1241 1241 12.25
Hilton 1272 1272 77.25
Hinton Martell 1272 1272 38.63
Holditch 1408 1408
Holt 1368
Holwell 1233 42.5
Iwerne Courtney 1261 1261 42.94
Kingston Russell 1284 1284
Langton Matravers 1278 27.25
Litton Cheney 1304 1304 40.8
Lyme Regis 1220 85
Maiden Newton 1221 1242 98.56
Melcombe Regis 1268 1314 95
Milton Abbas 1252 1252 107.25
Okeford Fitzpaine 1282 1282 61.22
Poole 1248 1453 40.38
Powerstock 1333 1333 21
Puddletown 1301 1301 65.13
Ryme Intrinseca 1298 1298 15.75
Shaftesbury 900 200
Shapwick 1267 1267 105.25
Sherborne 1148 1240
Shillingstone 1327 1327 43.94
Shotover 1286 1286
Stalbridge 1290 1290 37.5
Sturminster Marshall 1218 65
Sturminster Newton 1300 1332 12.23
Swyre 1272 17.95
Tarrant Gunville 1233 1233 58.25
Thorncombe 1313 1313 22.5
Wareham 900 1200 63.5
West Hemsworth 1303
Weymouth 1248 1248 65
Whitchurch 1265 1311
Wimborne Minster 1086 1224 67.25
Winterborne St Martin 1267 1267 65.5
Witchampton 1347 1347 29
Wool 1280 1280 105
Yetminster 1300 1300 62.5