Tag: market towns

• Market towns that failed: what became of the medieval markets of England and Wales?

  

  Medieval kings licensed markets in their thousands, each a bet that a village would become a town. I followed all 2,173 market places in England and Wales to today: 665 are towns, 1,168 are villages, and a few are fields or sea.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Black Death, charters, data, maps, market towns, markets, medieval, towns

• Great Fires: Did the Towns That Burned Rebuild Bigger?

  

  I read every fire in Wikipedia’s town articles and found 102 great town fires, 63% of them in the 1600s and 1700s. Three centuries on, the towns that burned are neither clearly bigger nor richer.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Census 2021, data visualisation, Georgian towns, great fires, history, maps, market towns, open data