Location of markets in English Market Towns, 1813

Historically the right to hold a market in England was regulated, most often by royal charter. Other markets were then prohibited within a radius of 6 2/3 miles around that town. This privilege provides an alternative to population size as a proxy for importance. This dataset contains the latitude and longitude I have determined for the market place in 698 historic English market towns which are recorded in a list published in "Owen's New Book of Fairs" (London: 1813), https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Owen_s_New_Book_of_Fairs_A_new_edition_e/lrdVAAAAcAAJ

Inclusion of a town in this list does not imply that the market was still being held as of 1813, nor that towns in the list were the only markets active as of 1813. A full description of the method for determining the location, and of the data format, can be found in the README file, or in the associated data paper (https://doi.org/10.17175/2025_005).