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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… house of his manor of Grimeston; in 52 H. 3. 15 he had market and fair at Wellehagh. 16 In the year 1290, Richard … her heirs; and that there was at Welhawe, stallage of the market and fair on St. Swithuns day there, valued at 40s. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Horton, p. 253. Ketley, p. 267. Lawley, p. 276. The old market town of Wellington lies just north of Watling Street …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a branch in 1867 from the Shrewsbury-Wellington line to Market Drayton. 60 It closed to passengers in 1963 61 and to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the 1920s) by road and rail communications. Wellington's market survived the early competition of Shrewsbury and … impeded the rise of such potential rivals as High Ercall (market granted 1267) and Madeley (1269). In 1244 Giles of Erdington was granted a Thursday market in Wellington manor, and the Crown renewed the grant …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 69 That the Green was the original, probably Anglo-Saxon, market place, situated where visitors to the church naturally … 12th and 13th centuries. 74 Before 1309, probably when the market was granted in 1244, 75 Wellington seems to have been … lower ground south of the churchyard, about a new square market place of c. ha. that was joined to the Green by a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… or November. In 1687 an adjourned session was held at the market hall, and the lord's right to hold manor courts there … in 1840. 93 Two aletasters (called clerks of the market by 1787) were elected annually by 1345 and still in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… John Forester of Watling Street through the governors of Market Drayton grammar school, who thereby secured an annual …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… nonconformity and tried to spoil a Quaker meeting at the market hall in 1760 by ringing the church bells. 87 By 1799 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Co. was formed to supply an area 5 miles around the Market Place. The company was reconstituted in 1860 as the … the town along Walker Street, and terminated in the Market Place 91 at a drinking fountain. 92 A second …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… War its attractions probably equalled those of many small market towns. In the mid 20th century, however, the urban … Large indoor meetings and entertainments were held in the market hall, 38 demolished c. 1800, 39 and in the successive … hall 45 and at the privately owned Ercall Assembly Room, Market Street (opened 1880, 46 closed after 1937), 47 Forest …