Burgh le Marsh still has its market place – but its market cross is lost
Parish/District | Burgh le Marsh/East Lindsey |
Location | on Burgh Market Place (near site of later Market House) |
Category | Lost cross (Market cross) |
National Grid Ref | TF 50135 65112 (estimated) |
Designation | N/A |
Stone Type | N/A |
Refs | Oldfield, E., 1829, A topographical and historical account of Wainfleet etc, p.102; Davies, D S, 1915, Lincolnshire Notes & Queries, Vol XIII No.6, p. 137; |
Visits | – |
Burgh le Marsh was granted a charter for a market (on Thursdays) in 1400 and was a busy market place into the 18th century. Oldfield, writing in 1829, (p.102) notes: ‘It still retains the name of a market town, but the market is altogether dwindled away. Thursday is considered the market day. . . . A market house was erected about 50 years since, but it is certainly no ornament to the town.’
It is presumed that Burgh would have had a market cross, but no records exist. Davies presumably looked for it in 1915, for he writes: ‘The cross disappeared years ago, probably when the Market House was built’.
It is likely that the market house, which is marked on the 1906 O.S. map, was built on the site of the market cross. The market place at Burgh still survives – but is now used as a car park.