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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… borough by Edward I. It remained for long an important market town, though severe fires in the 17th, 18th and 19th …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Great (St. Peter) BERKHAMPSTEAD, GREAT ( St. Peter), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the … close to the canal, and has a station at this point. The market is on Saturday; the market-house is an ancient building in the centre of the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… a month; and that they should have their own prison, 144 a market on Thursdays, besides that on Mondays, fairs on Shrove … in April, 1898, under the Local Government Act of 1894. A market, probably held by a prescriptive right, was held on … a lease of Berkhampstead Place, 153 set up a claim to the market houses and bailiwick. The townspeople pleaded that …
A History of the County of Hertford
… accommodation has been built on at the back. Around the market-place are the principal inns, all eighteenth-century … was an important posting town. The north side of the market-place is formed by a long narrow island of shops … called Back Lane. At the west end of Middle Row stood the market-house, built by the townspeople in the reign of Queen …
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
… Berkshire Berkshire Place name Date of inception of market The date of the charter, grant or first recorded mention of the market First recorded instance of a market 600-1100 1101-1200 1201-1300 1301-1400 1401-1516 Date …
Old and New London
… medicinal virtues in the nauseous smell. The great leather market has been established on this spot for above 200 years. … glue-makers, in other parts of the vicinity. Bermondsey Market, the great emporium for hides and skins, is in Weston … the skins which he is commissioned to sell. Here on market-days may be seen a busy scene of traffic between the …
Old and New London
… not only as a region of manufactures, but as a region of market gardens, as a region of wholesale dealers, or as a … every week in the shop of a bookseller in Kettering on market days, when only it was opened, and there he first saw … So constant was his attendance at this shop, that the market people, speaking proverbially, were wont to say, "As …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… sheep farm) in 1999. 4 Stonehaven Nurseries, a fruit and market gardening centre established in 1962, closed c.1991. 5 …
A Dictionary of London
… Berwick Alley - Billingsgate Market Berwick Alley In East Smithfield (W. Stow, 1722). Not … Lond. I. p.m. I. 30. "Buries Markes" (S. 141). "Bevers-market," 1630 (Hessel's Archives Dutch Ch. Registers No. … the situation a suitable one for the establishment of a market there in early times. It is mentioned in the Liber …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Berwick-Upon-Tweed BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, a port, borough, market-town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by … packed in boxes with ice, and sent chiefly to the London market; great quantities of lobsters, crabs, cod, haddock, … along the east coast hence to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The market, which is well supplied with grain, is on Saturday, …