A truth universally acknowledged?: Morphology as an indicator of medieval planned market towns
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Oosthuizen, Susan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3837-6823
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The paper explores, through the case study of March, a large town in the northern part of the Cambridgeshire peat fens, the general invariability of interpretation as planned markets of new medieval settlements that include both regular plots and one or more geometric open spaces. It asks whether manorial lords might achieve similar ends to those derived from medieval market grants — an increase in income from rents and tolls — by applying lessons learned from commercial planned settlements in other economic contexts.
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medieval market, medieval port, planned settlement, river transport, water management, hythe, common rights, fens
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Landscape History
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0143-3768
2160-2506
2160-2506
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34
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Informa UK Limited
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David Edwards was generous enough to provide a copy of his transcript of Rev Walker’s note on the date of origin of the early seventeenth-century estate map. Edna Stacey at March Museum was kind enough to allow access to the Museum’s photostat copy of the estate map, which is printed in greater contrast (and thus shows more detail) that those in the Cambridge University Library and the Cambridge Archives.