WINSTER MARKET HOUSE. 



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been held by prescription (as we can find no grant for it on 

 record), is held on Saturday, chiefly for butchers' meat. There 

 is no fair now held." 



The late Llewellynn Jewitt, that accomplished litterateur, lived 

 at Winster many years, and spent much time and research in 

 trying to find some early record of the old Market House, but 

 without success. In The Reliquary, vol. xxi., p. 144, we find 



After Restoration. 



the following from his pen : — " Dating back as it does from 

 Saxon times, Winster is one of the oldest market towns in the 

 county of Derby. Its market once ver)- flourishing, and even 

 within the memory of the oldest inhabitants, ' Wi long rows 

 o' stalls, and the people so thick and throng together you could 

 a walk'd a top o' their heads,' is now, however, a thing of the 

 past, having for many years fallen into desuetude. The old 

 venerable Market House, one of the few examples spared to 



