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RETFORD (officially EAST RETFORD)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 202 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RETFORD (officially EAST RETFORD)  , a market
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town and municipal borough in the Bassetlaw
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parliamentary division of Nottinghamshire, England, 1381 m . N. by W. from
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London by the
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Great
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Northern railway, the station being a junction with the Great Central railway . Pop . (1901) 12,340 . The church of St Swithin
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dates from the 13th century, but was rebuilt in 1658 by a brief granted by Richard Cromwell .
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Modern buildings are the town hall, the corn
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exchange, the court house, and the covered markets . There is a large trade in corn and cheese, and the town possesses iron foundries, paper and corn mills, and india-rubber
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works . The town is governed by a mayor, 6 aldermen, and 18 councillors .
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Area, 4656 acres . The situation of Retford (Redforde, Ratford), near one of the
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Roman roads and on the
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river Idle, where there was possibly a ford, may account for its origin . In Io86 the archbishop of York 1 Per Jesse', M.R . Talbot v .

Frere (1879), L.R . 9 . C.D . 568, 574 . 2 In re Williams; Holder v . Williams (19o4), I Ch . 52.owned a mill at Retford, and Roger de Busli had rights here . Retford was a borough by
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prescription, and was in the hands of the
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crown when, in I276,
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Edward I. granted it to the burgesses in
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fee-
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farm with the right of electing bailiffs . This charter was confirmed by Edward III., Henry VI. and Elizabeth . In 1607 James I. granted a charter of incorporation to the bailiffs and urgesses, under which the town was governed until 1835, when it was reincorporated under a mayor . East Retford returned two members to parliament in 1315, and again from 1572 till 1885, when it was disfranchised . Henry III. granted the burgesses an eight-days'
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fair at
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Holy Trinity, altered by Edward II. to St Gregory .

Edward III. granted a six-days' fair at St

Margaret, and Henry VI. a four-days' fair at St Matthew . Fairs are now held in March,
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June,
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July and December . The market held on Saturdays by prescription was sanctioned by Edward III. and still exists .

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