Monument record 4015/8 - Corby Medieval Market

{1} Although there is no mention of a market at Corby until 1226, this was an hundredal manor in royal hands in 1086. It is therefore conceivable that market originated in the functions of the late Saxon central place. However it is in a relatively peripheral woodland location and not in well populated agricultural landscape where the markets that are recorded in 1086 are located. The market was confirmed to Henry de Braybrooke together with two fairs in 1226, but it is not mentioned in any of the later extents. Its absence from the 1330 Quo Warranto records suggest that, if it did ever function, then it did not survive the famines of the second decade of the 14th century and may even have been supplanted in the later 13th century by the new market foundation at Geddington. There is no clear evidence in the plan form, as recorded in various post medieval maps, for the existence of a market place and no other urban attributes have been identified from documentary sources.

<1> Taylor J.; Foard G.; Ballinger J., 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Overview, Appendix 2 (checked) (Report). SNN103118.

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