Assembly Rooms
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The Shambles
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No. Address
Popular locations on the Shambles
Yorkshire Building S...
10 Market Place
Hong Kong House/Curr...
11 Market Place
Break Charity
12 Market Place
Premier Travel Agenc...
13 Market Place
Leonard Brittan Esta...
14 Market Place
Market Cross Café B...
15 Market Place
Sugar Rush
2 Market Place
Swaffham Café 1
3 Market Place
Swaffham Café 2
3b Market Place
Wartime and Vintage ...
3C Market Place
Vintage Moments
4 Market Place
Inheritance Legal Se...
5 Market Place
Nationwide Building ...
5a Market Place
Costa Coffee
7 Market Place
Photo Framing &...
8 and 8a Market Place
The Big C Shop
9 Market Place
Sue’s News
Marketplace, Swaffham
Mapping The Shambles
The name Shambles derives from the Old English word for a stool, evolved to stall and by the 15th century to mean a butchery.
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Vintage Moments - 4 Market Place
Swaffham Café 2 - 3b Market Place
Yorkshire Building Society - 10 Market Place
Market Cross Café Bar - 15 Market Place
Leonard Brittan Estate Agent - 14 Market Place
Break Charity - 12 Market Place
Inheritance Legal Services - 5 Market Place
Sue’s News - Marketplace, Swaffham
Premier Travel Agency - 13 Market Place
Costa Coffee - 7 Market Place
Assembly Rooms - 1 Market Place
Nationwide Building Society - 5a Market Place
Hong Kong House/Curry With Love - 11 Market Place
Sugar Rush - 2 Market Place
Wartime and Vintage Store - 3C Market Place
Swaffham Café 1 - 3 Market Place
The Big C Shop - 9 Market Place
Photo Framing & Printing Solutions - 8 and 8a Market Place
Marketplace
This area was where the original marketplace stood.
Apart from the market itself there was the first and Elizabethan market cross, a tollhouse, a courthouse, stocks and a whipping post, the town well, the town drain, a butchery and many stalls.
Well
There was a well – now covered over.
Probably the town drain was also here.
Image 2013.
1796
1839
1868
1912
Late 1930’s
1935 clearances
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