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Oxfordshire: Chipping Norton market (3)
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Vegetables, clothes and flowers are the staples of Chippy's market today, but once its streets saw busy trade in livestock. Fairs were held several times in the year, including on the last Friday in November, when horses, cows, sheep, cheese and leather were sold. By the 19th Century the most important was the relatively new Mop Fair, at which labourers offered themselves for hire bearing emblems of their trade - milk maids advertised themselves with milking stools. The "Mop" continues every October, but just for fun.