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Markets:
This photograph, taken at Craven Arms in Shropshire,
shows a sheep market taking place.
At this particular market some 18,000 sheep were being offered for sale,
with prospective buyers having travelled in from all over Britain. Markets
have been held in England from at least the Anglo-Saxon period, and are
commonly found in all parts of the country. They are generally held on
a weekly basis, providing the opportunity for both buyers and sellers
to meet. The right to hold a market was granted by charter, the charter
being held by the new market's local lord of the manor. Villages and towns
gaining a charter were usually the largest settlement in the area, and
it would be to these markets that trades people and farmers from surrounding
smaller villages would come to buy and sell. The gradual growth of shop
keeping eventually led to the decline of the market's importance.
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