Sign on Ambleside Civic trust 2000 Heritage Trail marking the Market Place, now Victorian Market Hall and Mechanics' Institute.

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Sign (legible in photograph) reads: THE MARKET PLACE / In the 16th century Ambleside was a centre of the woollen industry / and was granted a Market Charter as a town in 1650. Here was / the original site of the Market Cross and Bedlam (Bethlehem), / the 17th century Poor House. The Market Hall was a low timbered / building with an open ground floor and an upper gallery supported / on columns. In front was the village pump. Behind was Cheapside / with market stalls and the Shambles where butchers worked. / These buildings were swept away in the 19th century and / replaced by the handsome Victorian buildings of the Market Hall / and Mechanics Institute on the site of the original Cross House, / and by the Court House rebuilt in 1858. / Ambleside Civic Trust 2000 Heritage Trail

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Size: 2830px × 4262px
Location: Ambleside, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo credit: © UrbanImages / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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