Rotherham Market Place

This document describes the locations of two shops which stood in the Market Place as it was until the end of the 18th century. The Flesh Shambles was the meat market which occupied the area now covered by the Imperial Buildings and the top end of All Saints’ Buildings. By describing the bounds of neighbouring properties it mentions the names of seven tenants in two groups of properties, also two streets and a passageway, the Church, the Market Cross and the Moothall.

The market place was covered by rows of very small properties between Ratten Row (Church Street) and the Sheep Market. This is a typical historical development pattern for a market place. Traders set up stalls which over time become semi-permanent and are then replaced by small permanent buildings. These were replaced by one large Shambles building in the early 19th century, and that replaced in turn by the Imperial Buildings in 1908.

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