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The Environs of London
… of the river, about 40 acres of arable, 10 occupied by a market gardener; 50 waste, and the remainder upland pasture … 8d. which is at the rate of about 1s. 2d. in the pound. Market. Woolwich has a weekly market on Friday. The market-place was changed within the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (All Saints) WOOTTON - BASSETT ( All Saints), a market-town and parish, and formerly a representative … and the Great Western railway has a station here. The market is on Tuesday; and fairs, formerly six in number, but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim, Park. Eynsham and Woodstock were boroughs and market towns. The area, lying partly on the limestone uplands … gloves, for which fashionable tourists provided a ready market; the gloving industry survived in Woodstock and …
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 …