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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Some smallholders there and on the fen commons became market gardeners, although the number of farms out in the fen … from The Grange in 1933. 81 Extensive orchards and market gardens were reported around the village in 1837, and … 80 a. in 1890 and almost 150 a. in 1930 were worked by market-gardeners, who numbered ten c. 1905 and still six c. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish had a cage, a small brick, slated building off the market place, which still stood, though long unused, c. 1910. … inn, 29 moved later that year to the Court House off the Market place, newly erected by the Soham Building Company. 30 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 463-4. Cf. Complete Peerage, ix. 92-4 and nn; also above, Swaffham Bulbeck, manors (Burgh Hall). Complete Peerage, xii …
Old and New London
… neighbourhood forming part of Soho, and comprising Newport Market, where the famous orator Henley held his mock … The father of Horne Tooke was a poulterer in this market, or, as he is reported to have told his schoolfellows, … matter for a stranger to fancy himself in France." Newport Market was so named from the townhouse of the Earl of …
Survey of London
… 'a well known oriental term for a kind of fixed fair or market', 63 was to be, so Trotter claimed, an institution … on two floors of the building in the manner of a closed market. The vendors hired their selling spaces by the day and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It contains the cities of Bath and Wells; the borough, market, and sea-port town of Bridgwater; the borough and market towns of Frome and Taunton, the market and sea-port town of Watchet, the small sea-port town …
Old and New London
… says the writer above quoted, "it will be found that this market is in every way a very profitable concern, both to …
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
… Somerset Somerset 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 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yeo. Its economy has always been agrarian, although the market town of Somerton provided an early focus for the cloth …
A History of the County of Sussex
… soil around the village 81 encouraged the development of market-gardens and the glass-house industry. At the west end … was the centre of the Pullen, later Pullen-Burry, family's market-garden, 75 and extensive glass-houses were built north … found occasional summer employment on the farms or on the market-gardens which were becoming increasingly important in …