Thursday, March 22, 2012

14th century three-day fair in Stansted!

Climbing out of Wrotham, northwards, the traveller comes to Stansted, which reaches thickly wooded heights of up to 700 feet. Today's village retains little enough to remind visitors or residents either that it was a borough and a place of some importance as long ago as the fourteenth century, when residents had the right to hold a three-day fair there. There is a yew tree in the churchyard which is said to be more than 1,000 years old and Soranks Manor at nearby Fairseat was built on the foundations of an old medieval manor house.

Kent Villages by Alan Bigness
Published by Robert Hale, 1975

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