Place    From 1303 

Enfield Market

Categories: Commerce

From Wikipedia: "In 1303, Edward I granted a charter to Humphrey de Bohun, and his wife to hold a weekly market in Enfield each Monday, and James I granted another in 1617, to a charitable trust, for a Saturday market. The Market was still prosperous in the early eighteenth century, but fell into decline soon afterwards. There were sporadic attempts to revive it: an unsuccessful one of 1778 is recorded, and in 1826 a stone Gothic market cross was erected, to replace the octagonal wooden market house, demolished sixteen years earlier. In 1858, J. Tuff wrote of the market "several attempts have been made to revive it, the last of which, about twenty years ago, also proved a failure, It has again fallen into desuetude and will probably never be revived".

However the trading resumed in the 1870s. In 1904 a new wooden structure was built to replace the stone cross, by now decayed. The market is still in existence, administered by the Old Enfield Charitable Trust.

Our picture source, the Enfield Society, has more details and images.

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Enfield Market

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Enfield Market - 700 years

The Old Enfield Charitable Trust Enfield Market - Her Majesty The Queen, acco...

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John Morley

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White Horse pub

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Jack Neary

Jack Neary

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Sir John Betjeman

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