Marlow Fair was held on the last three days of October under a grant made by Edward II in 1324. It was abolished as a nuisance in 1903, and a public subscription raised 200 pounds to compensate the lord of the manor for his lost tolls. Hazlitt recorded its end as news.
The end of Marlow Fair
29 October · Marlow, Buckinghamshire
No longer kept
The fair has been lately (1903) abolished as a nuisance
From Hazlitt's Faiths and Folklore, vol. 2, p. 393. Read the original
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