Yester Years: All the fun of the town fair | Winsford Guardian
WE start off by pointing out that in the 1800s, Over was an important town. Winsford was a small hamlet, High Street was called Over Lane, and Delamere Street was an ancient thoroughfare. Going back beyond the day that the locals played football with the head of the Abbot of Vale Royal, who it must be said was not a very nice man. So they had a fair; they had permission to hold it from King Edward I in the year of grace, 1280. He granted a charter for it to be held on Wednesdays to the Abbott and convent of Vale Royal, which was within the old parish of Over (Whitegate parish was ...
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