Hertfordshire

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

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Hertfordshire

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
Ashwell 1086 149.84
Ayot St Lawrence 1506 1257 33.17
Baldock 1185 1199 132.58
Barkway 1270 1270 132.94
Benington 1304 1304 84.92
Berkhamsted 1086 1245 154.89
Bishop's Stortford 1336 1187 96.24
Braughing 1148 80.39
Buckland 1258 1258 38.67
Buntingford 1360 1360
Bushey 1141 1141 64.27
Bygrave 1256 1256 42.66
Cheshunt 1245 1245 159
Chipping 1252 1252
Codicote 1262 1272 65.28
Corney Bury 1253 1253
Digswell 1272 1272 34.62
Eastwick 1253 1253 24.38
Flamstead 1299 1299 4.28
Hatfield 1226 1226 199.69
Hemel Hempstead 1227 222.75
Hertford 912 1226 56.82
High Barnet 1199 89.66
Hitchin 1268 1221 119.25
Hoddesdon 1253 1253 69.72
King's Langley 1290 1290
Knebworth 1292 48.31
Puckeridge 1314 1314
Royston 1189 1189 18.69
Sawbridgeworth 1222 1306 142.41
Shenley 1268 1268 80.37
St Albans 950 1105 265.44
Standon 1225 1367 145.25
Stanstead Abbots 1086 50.88
Stanstead St Margarets 1281 1281
Stevenage 1223 1281 89.55
Tring 1315 1315 127.58
Ware 1199 1254 193.03
Watford 1189 1335 101.48
Watton At Stone 1248 80.72
Westmill 1226 1226 39.08