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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… off under the same escort. A gallows was erected in the market-place, for the execution of such of the citizens as … with a branch of a mile and a half to Worcester. The market-days are Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Fairs are … the first Mondays in May, June, July, and November. The market-place, nearly opposite the town-hall, in High-street, …
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
… Worcestershire 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 …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… and now the property of James Pearce, situate in the market place of the said borough of Evesham recorded at the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… after Leland and Tanner's account. " Werkensop a pretty market town of two streets, and metely well builded. There is … Furnivalles, and Talbottes buried at Wirksop. It is a market town, and there is a place now invironed with trees … in general well built, has good accommodating inns, has a market on Wednesdays; and fairs in October and March. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WORSTEAD ( St. Mary), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the Tunstead and Happing incorporation, … inhabitants, of whom 2823 are in Salop. This place had a market on Wednesday, and two fairs, granted by Henry III.; … Norman doorway on the south side. Worthing WORTHING, a market-town, in the parish of Broadwater, hundred of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… growth as a resort, and afterwards of the expansion of the market-gardening industry 88 and of the town's popularity as … from Horsham and London after 1802 3 and the opening of a market in 1810. Machinery for local government and policing …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and as the centre of what was formerly one of the chief market-gardening districts in the country. The modern … Worthing in 1933. O.S. Area Bk. (1876). Worthing Town and Market Act, 43 Geo. III, c. 59 (Local and Personal). MPL 21 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and c. 550 pigs and c. 2,250 poultry were also kept. 32 Market-gardening. 33 Worthing's climate and fertile brickearth soil helped the development of the market-garden and glass-house industry there. 34 A number of … in 1813, 35 and in 1814 and 1849 there were three market-gardens in Worthing itself. 36 In 1853 there were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… at least one terrace facing the sea near by. 50 Ann and Market streets, north of Warwick Street, were recorded … the Heene boundary, being abruptly halted there by the market-garden land which lay beyond. 96 During the next … years before, however, remained undeveloped or occupied by market-gardens, 1 and Grand Avenue marked the western edge of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… when the commissioners were also empowered to set up a market, and to borrow up to another £4,000 on the security of … difficulties, which were increased by the decline in market tolls not long after they were granted. 19 Despite the … inn in South Street, and after 1812 at the Royal George in Market Street. 71 A site for a town hall, at the junction of …