Tag: markets

• 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