Mainly these are
the fairs mentioned in Merry-Go-Round
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| Early
Year & Shrovetide Fairs |
Bolton
(New Year)
Bury, Lancashire
Dumfries March Fair
King’s Lynn Mart (February)
Lichfield (Shrovetide)
Longton (Shrovetide)
Macclesfield
Maesteg Flannel Fair
Wisbech Mart
Wrexham March Fair |
| Easter
& Spring Fairs |
Aberavon
(April)
Barnsley (May Day Green)
Birmingham Trinity
Fair
Boston May Fair
Broseley Pleasure Fair, Shropshire (end of April)
Cockermouth
Coventry Whitsun
Derby (Easter)
Devizes (Spring)
Exeter (Easter)
Gainsborough (April)
Hampstead Heath, London (spring)
Hereford May Fair
Huddersfield (Easter)
Ironbridge Pleasure Fair, Shropshire (early June)
Kirkaldy Links Market (Spring)
Knott Mill Fair, Manchester (abolished 1869)
Llanelly May Fair
Leicester May Fair
Lichfield Shrovetide
Lincoln (Easter)
Manchester Trafford Road (Easter)
Manchester Albert Memorial (Easter)
Monmouth May Fair
Neath Easter Fair
Northallerton May Fair
Norwich (Easter)
Nuneaton May Fair
Penzance Corpus Christi Fair
Pontefract Races (Easter)
Preston Whit Fair
Redruth Whitsun
Treorchy Fair (Rhondda Valley)
Wanstead Flats, London (spring)
Winlaton Co. Durham (spring)
Workington (Whitsun)
Wormwood Scrubs, London (spring)
Wolverhampton Whitsun Fair
York (Whitsun)
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Early
Summer
& Midsummer Fairs |
Ashton Wakes
Ayre
Barnet Fair
Bingley
Burton-onTrent Statute’s Fair
Cambridge (Midsummer)
Cleethorpes (midsummer)
Denton
Dewsbury (Midsummer)
Gloucester Barton Fair
Glasgow Fair (last two weeks in July)
Greenock (July)
Hunslet Feast
Kettering
Long Eaton
Longsight Wakes
Mansfield
Newcastle Town Moor
Mexborough Fair
Mitcham Fair (August)
Paisley Fair (August Bank holiday)
Perth (Midsummer)
Pudsey Feast
Rothwell, Northants (Midsummer)
Stalybridge Wakes
Torquay Regatta
Treorchy
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Late
Summer &
Early Autumn Fairs |
Banbury
Mop Fair
Barnsley
Barnstaple Fair
Batley
Bedworth Wakes, Nuneaton
Birmingham Onion Fair (late September) (Michaelmas)
Cleckheaton
Darmouth Regatta
Dumbarton
Dumfries Rood Fair
Eynsham Fair (September)
Gorton Wakes (September)
Holbeck Feast
Hyde Wakes
Ilkley
Ilkeston Charter Fair (the August Charter Fair and October Statutes and
Wakes Week were amalgamated in 1888)
Llanelly
Middleton Wakes
Neath Great Fair (September)
Newton Heath Wakes
Oldham Wakes
Reading
St. Gile’s Fair, Oxford (September)
Strood
Wishaw
Witney Feast, Oxfordshire (September)
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Late
Autumn &
Back End Fairs |
Abingdon
Annan October Fair
Aylesbury
Bicester
Barnstaple
Brandon, Co. Durham
Bridport
Circencester
Doncaster
Evasham
Fokestone
Gloucester
Holbeck
Hull Fair (mid October)
Loughborough
Maesteg, South Wales
Marlborough Mop
Newbury
Nottingham Goose Fair (early October)
Rotherham Statutes Fair
Stockton Hiring Fair
Stratford Mop
Tewkesbury
Tavestock
Wareham
Wath-on-Dearne
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| Winter
& Christmas Fairs |
Ayre
Bristol Winters Fairs
Deptford High Street, London
Edinburgh (Christmas)
Glasgow Christmas Fair
World's Fair: Agricultural Hall, Islington (Dec 24 - Feb
5)
Newcastle (Winter Fair)
Nuneaton
Olympia (Christmas)
Portsmouth
Sheffield
Southampton
Sunderland (Winter Fair)
York Martinmass |