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A History of the County of Oxford
… and probably created a borough, laying out plots around a market-place close to the original vill of Banbury. 29 The … Midlands. The town, however, remained essentially a local market serving a prosperous farming region, with some contact … the middle of the 19th century Banbury remained a small market town, of which the reputation and notoriety grew out …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the castle to the court hall, and by the repaving of the Market Place. 35 The corporation was granted the right to hold the market and fairs, a court of pie powder, the assize of bread, … a tumbrell, 70 exemplifies the corporation's function as a market authority and administrator of justice; and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 12th century; 2 and the original vill may well have had a market, for in 11389 the Bishop of Lincoln was able to grant away as much as 5 from the market tolls 3 and it is unlikely that a market granted to the 'planted' town, even if it existed as …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Banff - Berwick (North) Banff BANFF, a sea-port, burgh, market-town, and parish, in the county of Banff, of which it … packed in ice, or pickled, principally to the London market. A very considerable trade is also carried on in the … cattle, 911 pigs, and 156 sheep and lambs, for the London market alone. The trade in cattle has since greatly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BARKING ( St. Margaret), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Romford, hundred of Becontree, … The upper part of the building which was formerly the market-house, is appropriated to the purpose of a town-hall: … appropriated to the cultivation of potatoes for the London market. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… three divisions of which the central or largest forms a market-house formerly open to the street on both sides …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BARLESTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Market-Bosworth, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 3 miles (N. E.) from Market-Bosworth; containing 580 inhabitants, a portion of … stands on the Hull and York road, and was anciently a market-town, and of much greater importance than at present, …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… of York astride the York-Hull trunk road and close to the market-town of Pocklington. 1 The village was probably a … to the York road at inclosure. 18 The railway from York to Market Weighton, opened in 1847, passed through the parish. … on the former airfield. 36 Barmby reputedly had a weekly market before 1823, when an annual fair was still held. 37 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… (Fig. 70) The top of Barn Hill was the site of the sheep market before its removal to Sheep Market in about 1781. Nevertheless the street appears to have …