Tag: medieval towns

• Minted: were England’s mint towns still the big towns?

  

  Around the year 1000, every English penny named the town that struck it. I followed the 68 mint towns of Æthelred II forward to 1377, 1801 and 2021. 8 of the 10 biggest were still among England’s largest towns in 1377; Lydford, Cadbury and Torksey are villages now.

  Tristan Hotham

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