Ye Olde Market, Newark black plaque

Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Ye Olde Market could be described as the "Mother of all Markets". It is legacy from a time when, as one eyewitness put it, "no one could visit the market without being confronted with the dripping end of a quarter of beef" - a sort of medieval burger bar without the fries. The origins are not exactl

y known. According to folklore, Prince John (the bad guy in all the Robin Hood films and who died in the castle opposite) started the market as a way of selling the goods King Richard brought back wit

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