Market-town Definition

Market-town Sentence Examples

• Nevertheless thirty years later it is described by Leland as the westernmost market town in Cornwall "with no socur for Botes or shippes but a forsed Pere or Key."

• The ancient market town of Hartlepool lies on a peninsula which forms the termination of a southeastward sweep of the coast and embraces the bay.

• A market town since the 14th century, Korsor has ruins of an old fortified castle, on the south side of the channel, dating from the 14th and 17th centuries.

• Airdrie was a market town in 1695, but owes its prosperity to the great coal and iron beds in its vicinity.

• Forty years later Norden describes it as an incorporation and market town.