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| HER Number | MWB21395 |
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| Record Type | Monument |
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| Name | Site of Newbury Cattle Market, Market Street |
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Summary
Former location of a Victorian cattle market from the late 19th to the late 20th century
Associated Legal Designations or Protected Status
- Conservation Area: Newbury Town Centre
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
Newbury Cattle Market is shown on the OS First Edition map of 1880 <1> and later historic mapping up to the Fifth edition of 1967 <2>. It was designed by James Money <3> and was opened in 1873 by local resident Lord Carnarvon; the facility was closed in 1969 and replaced by a bus station. Money noted that 'the opening ceremony was an occasion of considerable festivity' <7> and that the cost of the new cattle market was about £5000, but that the accommodation afforded to agriculturists and dealers was much appreciated.
The earliest mapping of the cattle market <1> delineates a narrow trapezoidal strip on the south side of the east-west Market Street. A row of about 20 small buildings has an office in the centre, and urinals are marked on either side of the gated entrance. Elsewhere there are many rows of pens. The market had expanded southwards by 1934 <4> with at least two large new buildings and a different configuration of pens.
West Berkshire Museum has photographs showing the Cattle Market and Market Street in the 1960s <5>. An oblique aerial photograph from 1948 <6> shows the market with several roofed buildings surrounded by pens, overlooked by the houses in Highfield Avenue and on the north side of Market Street. Lorries and vans are parked around the pens where some stock may be present.
Sources and further reading
| <01> | Landmark. 1880-81. Digital OS Mapping Epoch 1, 1:500 - Newbury Town Plan. Digital. 1:500. Marked 'Cattle Market'. [Map / SWB146990] |
| <02> | Ordnance Survey. 1962-1981. Ordnance Survey Epoch 5, 1:2500. 1:2500. Marked 'Cattle Market'. [Map / SWB14665] |
| <03> | Newbury District Council. 1974-2000. Newbury District Council Planning Applications 1974-2000. 80/13199/ADD, 80/13676/ADD and 80/13958/ADD. [Index / SWB148104] |
| <03> | Peacock, D. 03/07/2016. Correspondence from David Peacock to West Berkshire HER about his research on James Money. 2016 WBC Network. [Unpublished document / SWB149196] |
| <04> | Ordnance Survey. c. 1930. Ordnance Survey Epoch 4. [Map / SWB14664] |
| <05> | Museum Curator. Newbury Museum Accession Records (West Berkshire Museum since 1998). 2022 WBC Network. NEBYM:2000.20.256.1-261.1. [Unpublished document / SWB14452] |
| <06> | Aerofilms. 29/04/1948. Britain from Above - EAW015079. Aerial Photo. [Photograph / SWB149478]
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW015079 (Accessed 03/10/2018) |
| <07> | Money, W. 1905 & 1972. A Popular History of Newbury (also Walter Money's History of Newbury). p130. [Monograph / SWB11278] |
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Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
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