Suffolk

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

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Suffolk

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
Aspall 1086 30.75
Barking 1226 1226 87.25
Barrow 1267 1267 60
Bawdsey 1283 1154 105.75
Bealings 1271 1271
Beccles 1086 1205 213.19
Belton 1270 1270 55.7
Benhall 1292
Bildeston 1348 43.5
Blythburgh 1086 1324 101.13
Botesdale 1275
Bramfield 1270 1270 74.92
Brampton 1271 1271 60
Brandon 1319 1319 88
Brent Eleigh 1260 1260 42.94
Brightwell 1285
Bungay 1228 1199 94.88
Bures 1271 1271 48
Burgate 1272 1272 41.88
Bury St Edmunds 1043 1149 360
Byng Hall 1275
Carlton Colville 1267 1267 39
Cattawade 1247
Clare 1086 1294 75
Clopton 1303 1303 63.75
Covehithe 1298 1298 135
Cowlinge 1225 70.52
Debenham 1221 1222 82.62
Drinkstone 1267 1267 58.06
Dunwich 1066 120
Earl Stonham 1327 1327 44.75
East Bergholt 1516 87.58
Easton Bavents 1330 1330 27.5
Erwarton 1254 1254 33.5
Exning 1223 1258
Eye 1086 1137 70.83
Felsham 1268 1268
Flixton 1253
Framlingham 1270 1300 55
Freckenham 1219 1219 70.78
Great Bricett 1154 1154 37.62
Great Thurlow 1272 1272 43.77
Grundisburgh 1285 1285 57.77
Hacheston 1226 1226 34.5
Hadleigh 1269 127.5
Halesworth 1223 1292 60.12
Haughley 1227 1227 74
Haverhill 1086 101.78
Herringfleet 1226 22.5
Homersfield 1227
Hoxne 1066 1106 165.5
Ipswich 973 1161 645.25
Ixworth 1384 1384 41.5
Kelsale 1086 34.5
Kelton 1292 1292
Kersey 1252 42.56
Kessingland 1251 1251 81.42
Kettleburgh 1265 1265
Lakenheath 1201 1250 104.83
Lavenham 1257 1257 108
Laxfield 1226 1472 75
Leiston 1242 1312
Letheringham 1297 48.38
Lidgate 1275 75.94
Long Melford 1235 1235 109.81
Lothingland 1211
Lowestoft 1308 1308 37.59
Margritestowe 1270 1275
Market Weston 1263 1263 40.5
Mendlesham 1280 1280 90.12
Mildenhall 1219 1219 172.55
Moulton 1298 65
Nayland 1227 1227 45
Newmarket 1218 1223
Orford 1298 100
Oulton 1307 1307 35.78
Ousden 1254 1254 24.25
Pettistree 1253 1253
Raydon 1310 1310 50.37
Redgrave 1219 1219 84.25
Ringshall 1270 1270 63.38
Saxmundham 1272 1272
Shelley 1226 1227 35.75
Shotley 1303 1303 49.62
Sizewell 1275
Soham Earl 1302 1302
Somerleyton 1272
Somersham 1319 1319 45
Southerton 1226 16.5
Southwold 1221 1221 54.12
Stoke By Nayland 1303 1303 71.63
Stowmarket 1086 1338 97.5
Stradbroke 1225 1309 135
Stratford St Mary 1384 1384 35.5
Sudbury 1009 280.5
Thurston End 1290 1290
Toppesfield 1252 1252
Walsham Le Willows 1516 41.75
Walton 1200 1307
Wantford 1262 1231
Westhall 1229 40.5
Westhorpe 1372 1372
Whittingham 1267 1267
Wickham Market 1275
Wissett 1267 1267 90
Witnesham 1227 50.5
Woodbridge 1226 1342
Woodhall 1295
Woolpit 1482 32.5
Worlington 1258 1258 82.5
Wyverstone 1231 1231 31.69