ECC1839 - Building known as the 'Red Row', High Street, Colchester, 1546

Site Event/Activity record ECC1839 - Building known as the 'Red Row', High Street, Colchester, 1546

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Location	High Street, Colchester
Grid reference	TL 99433 25213 (point)
Map sheet	TL92NE
Non Parish Area	COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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1546

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The Victoria County History notes that, 'At the west end of the (High) street was the corn market, stalls or galleries erected against the building known as St Peter's 'rents' in 1546, the Red Row by 1549'.<1><2>

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<1> SCC19 Monograph: Cooper, Janet (Ed). 1994. Vol. IX, The Borough of Colchester, A History of the County of Essex. Volume IX. p104.
<2> SCC326 COLLECTION / PARENT: Various. Essex Records Office Miscellaneous Documents. E.R.O., D/B 5 Gb3, f. 103v.

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Feb 9 2016 1:31PM

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