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Soon after the erection of the Hungerford's Elizabethan Town Hall in 1573, a Duchy of Lancaster survey in 1607 (Berks RO H/M6) shows that the town had now acquired a buttermarket, the gift of Erasmus Webb.

Rev Summers states (The Story of Hungerford, p.141) "The butter market house is referred to in 1716. At the Hocktide Court in 1725 it was ordered to be pulled down, the site to be pitched and a market cross erected there."

It is possible that this was not carried out until 1746, when the Constables' accounts record:

     "Paid ye Expences of Takin down the Market House & carry away    £3 11s".

See also:
- Town Halls, inc Cross House, Courte House
- Blindhouse
- Assembly Room
- Leper House
- Dye house
- Pest House
- Town Pond

Updated: 21.8.2011

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