Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

Markets surrounding the study area 1660-1840
North Worcestershire:
Alvechurch (Sat) 7 ; Bewdley (Sat) 8 ; Bromsgrove (Tues); Droitwich (Fri); Dudley
(Sat); Halesowen (formerly Shropshire) (Sat) 9 ; Kidderminster (Thurs and Sat); Kings
Norton (Sat); Stourbridge (Fri); Stourport (Wed and Sat) from the last quarter of the
eighteenth century.
South Worcestershire:
Evesham (Mon); Pershore (Tues) (changed to Fri 1807) 10 ; Shipston-upon-Stour (Sat);
Upton-upon-Severn (Thurs) 11 ; Worcester (Wed, Fri and Sat). 12
North Warwickshire:
Birmingham (Mon, Thurs, Sat); Coleshill (Wed); Coventry (Wed and Fri);
Kenilworth (Wed); Leamington (Wed); Solihull (Wed); Sutton Coldfield, revived
1748, but perhaps defunct again before 1800 13 ; Warwick (Tues and Sat).
South Warwickshire:
Henley-in Arden (Mon); Kineton (Tues); Southam (Mon); Stratford-upon-Avon
(Fri). 14
North Gloucestershire:
Cheltenham (Thurs); Chipping Campden (Wed); Gloucester (Wed and Sat); Moretonin-Marsh
(Tues); Stow-on-the Wold (Thurs); Tewkesbury (Wed and Sat);
Winchcombe (Sat).
7 Berrow’s Worcester Journal 24 Oct. 1754 mentions its revival at that time, but how long it lasted is
not known.
8 Bewdley held a general market, but Worcester Postman, 11 Oct 1717, states that a hop market was
starting at Bewdley every Saturday.
9 Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 10 Nov 1766 states that Halesowen held a market every Monday, which
would be toll-free in future.
10 Berrow’s Worcester Journal, Jan to April 1807 mentions controversy as some locals wished the
market day to change back to Tuesday.
11 Berrow’s Worcester Journal 23 July 1752 carries a notice asking for corn from Herefordshire and
Worcestershire to be brought to Upton market for sale. Berrow’s Worcester Journal 4 Oct 1781 states
that corn would be sold at Upton market in future, (implying that sale of corn had previously ceased).
12 Berrow’s Worcester Journal 20 May 1779 stated that Worcester’s market for butter, cheese and eggs
will move from the Cross and soils adjoining into the Guildhall.
13 Worcester Journal 8 Dec. 1748 reports its revival. Its day of operation is not known.
14 Berrow’s Worcester Journal 11 March 1790 reports that in future Stratford market was to close
earlier each week (at 1.30 p.m.). A report in the Worcester Journal 3 Nov. 1748 states that Stratford
market was on Thursday, not Friday at that time.
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