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Beoley
Wake: Sunday following Old St Bartholomew’s Day (early Sept.?) 17
Bidford
April Fair: 9 April 18
Trinity Fair: May in nineteenth century 19
September Fair: 8 Sept. 20
Late September Fair: 25 Sept. Toll-free, for cheese, all sorts of cattle, corn
and other merchandise, in 1754 changed to 6 Oct. in future (unless a Sunday in
which case 7 Oct.). 21
Mop Fair: 10 Oct. ‘as usual’ in 1754. 22 Old Michaelmas Day in 1831. 23
Feckenham
March Fair: for cattle 26 March until mid-nineteenth century. 24
May Fair: 27 May, c.1860. 25
Wake: 1 st Sun. after St John the Baptist. 26
September Fair: Statute or ‘Mapp’ Fair for hiring servants 30 Sept. 27 For
cattle 30 Sept. until mid-nineteenth century. 28
Hunt End Wake: early August until early twentieth century. 29
Great Alne
Wake: 21 July in 1730, but not c. 1850. 30
Inkberrow
Mop Fair: 12 Oct. until early twentieth century. 31
Morton Bagot
Wake: June 1841 around the time of the 1841 census 32
17 VCH Worcestershire, vol. iv, p. 13.
18 1854 PO Directory of Warks.
19 ‘Local Past’, Spring 1986, (Journal of ADLHS).
20 1854 PO Directory of Warks.
21 Berrow’s Worcester Journal 19 Sept. 1754.
22 Ibid.
23 WaRO, DR399/271/14, Salford Priors settlements.
24 VCH Worcestershire, vol. iii, p. 115, and 1798 UBD, 1829 Pigot’s Directory of Worcs.
25 R. C. Gaut, A History of Worcestershire Agriculture and Rural Evolution, p. 319.
26 VCH Worcestershire, vol. iii, p. 115. Continues to the present day.
27 Berrow’s Worcester Journal 21 Sept. 1758.
28 VCH Worcestershire, vol. iii, p. 115, and 1798 UBD, 1829 Pigot’s Directory of Worcs.
29 Information from Graham Downie of Studley.
30 VCH Warwickshire, vol. iii, p. 24.
31 Information from Graham Downie of Studley.
32 WaRO, 1841census for Morton Bagot records 22 extra people (8 males, 14 females, mainly children)
in the parish because of the wake
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