A01=Dennis Mynard
A01=Julian Hunt
Author_Dennis Mynard
Author_Julian Hunt
Buckinghamshire
Category=NHD
Category=WQH
civil war
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local history
market town
new market
pagnell family
Phillimore
stagecoach routes
tickford priory
Product details
- ISBN 9780850339956
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 185 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1995
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Newport Pagnell has a thousand years of history as a market town. It is called Newport, meaning ‘a new market’, but later the name of the medieval owners, the Pagnells, was added. It was this family who founded nearby Tickford Priory and gave the monks the right to buy and sell produce free of toll in Newport Pagnell market. The town’s strategic position during the Civil War, and the quality of its inns, reflected its importance on the stagecoach routes. Newport Pagnell can justly claim that Tickford Bridge is the oldest cast-iron bridge in daily use.
JULIAN HUNT was born in Worcestershire in 1949 and joined the staff of Birmingham Reference Library in 1968. He was first published in 1973 and later moved to Buckinghamshire County Library in 1988. He has written numerous histories of Buckinghamshire market towns as well as other areas of England.
