Lancashire

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

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Lancashire

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
Arkholme 1279 1279 9
Ashton Under Lyne 1413 1413 45
Bolton 1251 1251 18.75
Burnley 1294 1294 19.5
Castleton 1311 1311 13.5
Charnock Richard 1284 1284 17.25
Chorley 1257 1498 21.75
Clitheroe 1258 1203 35.25
Croston 1195 1283 15
Dalton In Furness 1239 1239 45
Euxton 1301 1301 22.5
Flookburgh 1199 1412
Garstang 1310 1310 100
Hale 1304 1304 49.5
Hardhorn 1348 1348 23.5
Hornby 1285 1292 5
Kirkham 1287 1287 17.25
Lancaster 1193 1292 40
Lathom 1304 1304 52.5
Layton 1257 1257 23.75
Liverpool 1207 1298 30
Manchester 1282 1227 50.25
Netherton 1338 1338
Newton Le Willows 1257 1257 28.5
North Meols 1219 1219 20
Ormskirk 1286 1286
Penwortham 1086 8.25
Prescot 1333 1333
Preston 1179 1189 35
Roby 1304 1304
Rochdale 1251 1251
Rufford 1339 1339 19.25
Salford 1228 1228 19.5
Stainton 1292 1292
Tarbock 1257 1257 35
Tottington 1278 14.25
Ulverston 1200 1280 80
Walton Le Dale 1221 1221 40.5
Warrington 1277 1255 45
Warton 1200 15
West Derby 1346 42.5
Widnes 1356
Wigan 1245 1245 9