He enlisted in the army and after contracting Malaria at Walcheren he was discharged in 1817. He returned to Bromyard sometime between 1818 and 1820.
Market Place with the old Market Hall about 1840....
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| Thomas
Martin
was born in Bromyard in Herefordshire. He enlisted in the army and after contracting Malaria at Walcheren he was discharged in 1817. He returned to Bromyard sometime between 1818 and 1820. Market Place with the old Market Hall about 1840.... |
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Bromyard is a market town situated very pleasantly between the hills and the inhabitants boast that they live in one of the most ancient market towns in England - as said by Silas Taylor in 1652.
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There has been settlement in
the Bromyard area since pre-historic The earliest known reference to Bromyard is an Anglo-Saxon charter of about 840 when the Bishop of Hereford granted about 500 acres of land to a farmer for three generations. Bromyard was not only a major religious centre. It was an ancient meeting place for religious, administrative and judicial occasions. |
Little of the old street plan has changed (a new road was cut about 1835) but Thomas Martin would have no difficulty finding his way around the Bromyard of 1120 developed by Richard Capella and except for a by-pass of 1967, would have no trouble today.
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and exchange would inevitably take place and Bromyard was
probably a marketing focus long before the Norman
Conquest. The Doomsday survey of 1086 reveals Bromyard as
a large agricultural manor belonging to the bishop of
Hereford. Within 200 years Bromyard was an established
borough containing seven streets, a market square and a
population of 1200 people. This was the result of
episcopal enterprise. Many new towns were founded in the vigorous days following the Norman Conquest; an urban centre was both a profit to the lord of the manor and a benefit to the people of the surrounding countryside. |
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