Market town Facts for Kids

The city center of Colchester. Colchester is Englands oldest recorded market town.

Market town is a word in law that came from the medieval period. It means a settlement in Europe that has the right to have markets. This separates them from villages and cities. A town may be described as a market town or as having market rights even if it does not have a market anymore, provided the right to do so still holds.

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Shrewsbury market square
The market square (Marktplatz) in Wittenberg, Germany, 2005
Market cross in a market, French, c. 1400
Modern market hall in Frankfurt-Höchst, where the market dates back to at least 1356.
The Fish Market at Hastings Beach by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1810
The Fish Market by Joachim Beuckelaer, c. 1568
London's Clare market by Thomas Shepherd, 1815
Market cross at Devizes, a market town in Wiltshire.
The Market Place, Ely, Cambridgeshire by W. W. Collins, 1908
Market hall, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, Germany
Market place, Weeze, Germany
Market place, with fountain, Schmölln, Germany
Market place, Floridsdorf, Austria, c. 1895
Hungarian fruit market, original drawing by Wilhelm Hahn, 1868
Main market street in Miskolc, 1884
Heti vásár (weekly market) at Nagykanizsa, 1901
Fish market, Bergen, Norway, c. 1890
Market and customs house, Porsgrunn, c. 1891-1910
Market square, Youngstorget Nytorvet, c. 1915-20
Norwegian market, Storfjord, Skibotn, Troms, 1917
Norwegian Market, c. 1921-35
Market (illustration), c. 1927
Traditional Winter market at Røros, 2001
Market, Tønsberg, Norway, 2010
Holyhead market In Wales, woodcut, 1840
Birmingham Market Charters 1166 and 1189
Market cross, Lambourn erected in 1446
Salisbury chartered market
Sedbergh chartered market
Market Square, Huntingdon.
Northampton Market, established in around 1255
Altrincham, Chartered Market
Corner of the market square in Horncastle, given its charter in the 13th century
Farmers' market on Monnow Bridge, Wales, 2008
Kelso Farmers Market, Scotland with cobbled square in the foreground
Square in front of St Giles' Church, Elgin, is the site of a medieval market
Orkney Auction Mart, Hatston Industrial Estate
Weekly Farmers' Market at Castle Terrace, Edinburgh
Market Scene by Pieter Aertsen, 1550
Rustic Market (Nundinae Rusticorum) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1555–56
Fish Market by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1568
At the Market by Jonge Lange, 1584
Peasants going to the market, Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1602
Vegetable market in Holland, by Sybrand van Beest, 1648
Fruit and vegetable market, Holland by Sybrand van Beest 1652
Village Market with the Quack by Cornelis Pietersz Bega, 1654
Market Scene by Jan van Horst, 1569
Flemish Market and Washing Place by Joos de Momper, first half 17th century
Market Square in Bruges by Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove, 1696
A Fish Market in a Village Square by Barent Gael, n.d. (late 17th century)
A Poultry Market Before a Village Inn by Barent Gael, n.d. (late 17th century)
Market by Alessandro Magnasco, first half 18th century
Market at Aberystwith, sepia print by Samuel Ireland, 1797
'Returning from Market', oil painting by Augustus Wall Callcott, c. 1834
The Fish market in Woudrichem by Jan Weissenbruch, 1850
Market Day at Zaltbommel by Elias Pieter Van Bommel, 1852
A market day in Bangor by John J Walker, 1856
A market scene in Constantinople by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1860
Grote Markt, Antwerp by Cornelis Springer, 1862
Town hall and market by Cornelis Springer, 1864 (detail)
Pwllheli Market in Wales, watercolour by Frances Elizabeth Wynne, c. 1866
A Moonlit Vegetable Market by Petrus van Schendel, 19th century
A Market Scene by Alberto Pasini, late 19th century
North African market by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1923
Market in Poltava by Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky, n.d.
Fair in Ukraine by Vladimir Makovsky, 1882

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