This is an augmented and adapted database of markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales, based on the original Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516. Original documentation is linked from here.

Original dataset

Samantha Letters, with Mario Fernandes, Derek Keene and Olwen Myhill, Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (Kew: List and Index Society, 2003; Special Series vols 32 and 33). UK Data Archive, Study Number SN 4171. © Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research (School of Advanced Study, University of London).

Online edition (with updates to 2006): archives.history.ac.uk/gazetteer.

Augmentation & adaptation

Database construction, normalisation, coordinate correction, integration of the 2006 online updates, and this web application by Stephen Gadd, 2025–2026.

Welsh place names

Welsh-language toponyms augmented using data from the RCAHMW Historic Place Names of Wales, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Historic county boundaries

County outlines from the Historic County Borders Project.

Navigable waterways

Inland waterway network from E. Oksanen & J. Sherborne, Inland Navigation in England and Wales before 1348: GIS database (2019).

Historical roads

Road network digitised by Stephen Gadd from John Ogilby’s Britannia (1675) road strip maps and Philip Lea’s The Travellers Guide (c. 1686).

Base map

Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Rendered with MapLibre GL JS.