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Highworth Charter Market - Saturdays
A market with a diversity of stalls, shops and caffes. Every Saturday in Highworth High street SN6 7AG

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High Street
Highworth
SN67AG

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8am - 2pm

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07789781151

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Highworth Market - Saturdays 8am to 2pm.

Highworth is located where a Saxon royal estate once existed and where its hundred courts were held every four weeks.

By the 11th century a minster church had also been established. Lay settlements would have converged here attracting and encouraging trade. It is this pre-urban nucleus which provided a centre and ready market for the early borough of Highworth until it gained an economic life of its own.

The 12th and 13th centuries, particularly, witnessed the establishment of new towns in England. Feudal lords were all involved in laying out planned towns with burgage plots on their manors with an adjacent market.

Warin FitzGerold, whose family had held the hundred of Highworth since 1156 and who was lord of the manor of Sevenhampton, was influential in the founding of our town.

One of the prime functions of a town was to act as a market and exchange for its hinterland. The acquisition of a market charter was essential for the medieval town to survive and develop. Charters authorising the holding of a weekly market and annual fairs, often conveying the privileges of borough status, had to be purchased from the king. They were considered to be a profitable investment. To get a charter one needed influence at court.

As hereditary chamberlain to both King Richard and later King John, FitzGerold, whose name appears on the Magna Carta, was in a unique position to achieve this goal.

On the 20th April 1206, the first known charter giving the right to hold a weekly Wednesday market and an annual fair at Highworth on the vigil and feast of St Michael (29th September) was granted to FitzGerold, by King John.

This charter is amongst the earliest of Wiltshire's market charters, possibly the tenth oldest. This right has continued in the town into the twenty first century.

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