Norfolk

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

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Norfolk

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
Acle 1275 117
Aldeby 1270 1270 108
Ashby 1272 22.5
Aslacton 1270 1270 27
Attleborough 1226 1226 120
Aylsham 1275 1248 135
Banham 1338 1338 60
Barningham Winter 1318 1318 40.5
Bawsey 1154 26.25
Bexwell 1256 105
Billingford 1305 76.88
Binham 1201 73.5
Blackborough 1244
Blakeney 1223 1223 180
Bromehill Priory 1224
Brooke 1282 1282 58.13
Broomholm 1225 1226
Brundall 1253 43.5
Buckenham 1275 1275 57
Burgh Next Aylsham 1226 1291 39
Burgh St Margaret 1271 1271 80
Burnham Market 1100
Burnham Overy 1271 1271 150
Burnham Sutton 1347 60
Burnham Thorpe 1223 52.5
Cantley 1235 1235 90
Castle Acre 1391 1470 180
Castle Rising 1150 1254 90
Cawston 1263 1264 120
Claxton 1340 1340 52.5
Cley Next The Sea 1253 1253 150
Creake Abbey 1226
Cromer 1400
Croxton 1270 1270
Diss 1275 1300 111
Docking 1250 1250 195
Downham Market 1129 100.5
East Dereham 1388 217.5
East Harling 1475 1475 105
East Rudham 1258 1227 97.5
Elsing 1380 1380 59.5
Fakenham 1286 1201 91
Felbrigg 1353 1353 30
Feltwell 1283 1283 184.84
Foulsham 1268
Fring 1372 1372 105
Fritton 1328 1328 60
Garboldisham 1272 1272 120
Garveston 1258 52.5
Gayton 1254 1254 225
Gimingham 1242 61.5
Gissing 1379 1379 51
Gooderstone 1176 1310 102.12
Gorleston-on-sea 1275
Great Dunham 1086
Great Massingham 1334 1334 180
Great Melton 1251 1251 67.5
Great Ryburgh 1305 1305 79.5
Great Yarmouth 1066 1208 1000
Grenstein 1251
Gresham 1243 1243 30
Gressenhall 1229 1229 90
Grimston 1251 1251 151.5
Guton 1287
Halvergate 1303 1303 49.5
Hanworth 1275 1203 55
Hardwick 1304 1304 21
Harleston 1270 1228
Harpley 1307 1307 94.5
Haveringland 1348 1348 59.25
Heacham 1272 1272 247.5
Helhoughton 1272 50.75
Hempnall 1226 1380 106.5
Hempton 1286 30
Hemsby 1225 135
Heydon 1311 62.25
Hickling 1204 133.5
Hilborough 1347 1347 57
Hingham 1275 135
Hockham 1272 1272 63
Holkham 1267 1267 142.5
Holme Hale 1252 1252 111
Holt 1086 1310 78
Horning 1246 1245 39
Horsham St Faith 1307
Hunstanton 1225 129
Ickburgh 1257 1257 41.45
Ingham 1226 55.5
Ingworth 1321
Kelling 1347 1347 36
Kenninghall 1275 1226 52.5
King's Lynn 1119 1119 500
Langham 1227 57
Langley 1200 1200 82.62
Litcham 1086 1297 50.25
Little Barningham 1303 1303 26.25
Little Fransham 1377 1377 51
Little Massingham 1272 1272 60
Little Walsingham 1226 1226 100.5
Loddon 1245 1245 157.31
Long Stratton 1207
Long Stratton 1257
Lyng 1295 49.5
Marham 1260 1260 157.5
Martham 1480 145.5
Mayton 1275 1328
Merton 1226 67.88
Methwold 1516 159.63
Mulbarton 1253 42
Narford 1335 1335 54
New Buckenham 1156 1275 92.25
North Creake 1280 1280
North Elmham 1320 1143 112.5
North Walsham 1275 225
Norwich 924 1106 946
Oxborough 1249 1249 120
Pensthorpe 1257
Pulham 1275 1275 183
Reepham 1240 1277
Runham 1226 1226 63
Saham Toney 1205 1299 155.5
Setchey 1258 1258
Sheringham 1239 1239 55.5
Shipden 1285 1285 43.5
Shipdham 1245 1245 150
Shouldham 1516 127.5
Sisland 1265 1265
Sloley 1336 75
Snetterton 1315 1315 82.5
Snettisham 1516
South Creake 1275 174
St Benet's Holme 1245
Stanford 1283 1222 97.88
Stiffkey 1271 1271 120
Stinton 1250
Stoke Ferry 1248 1248 83.25
Stokesby 1272 1272 82.5
Stow Bardolph 1244
Sutton 1324 1324 51
Swaffham 1215 1253 300
Tacolneston 1304 1304 45
Tatterford 1272 1272 31.5
Thetford 952 1148 160
Thornham 1245 1245 100.5
Thorpe Market 1275 1275 60.06
Thurning 1264 75
Tilney 1284 1284 450
Tilney Cum Islington 1270 1270
Tittleshall 1267 1267 78
Trunch 1287 67.5
Tunstead 1260 1260 103.5
Upton 1253 1253 70.44
Upwell 1202 1486
Walpole 1272 1272 532.5
Watlington 1252 160.5
Watton 1205 97.5
Waxham 1254 69
Wells-next-the-sea 1202
West Acre 1479 65.25
West Dereham 1199 150
West Tofts 1260 1260 56.05
West Walton 1271
Weybourne 1319 1319 24
Wheatacre 1318 1318 52.5
Whinburgh 1284 1284 48
Wicklewood 1440 55.5
Wiggenhall St German 1347 1347
Wighton 1201 142
Wilton 1225 1225 144.38
Winterton On Sea 1345 1345 101.25
Wormegay 1154 1258 69
Worstead 1336 217.61
Wymondham 1204 1154 195