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Bungay Market

Bungay's small Thursday market gathers around the Butter Cross in the Market Place, a tradition dating back to 1382.

Bungay Market

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Bungay Market

Bungay's weekly Thursday market is held around the Butter Cross in the Market Place. A Thursday market has run here since 1382, when Richard II gave permission for the town's existing Saturday market to move to Thursdays. It is a small market today, with stalls selling fruit and vegetables, pet food, olives, cakes and hot dogs. The Bungay Town Trust has managed the market since 1871, when it paid £40 to buy the market rights and dues from the Duke of Norfolk. In medieval times the stalls clustered around a stone cross. By Tudor times traders had built permanent shops around the market area, and the cross was replaced with a roofed building to give shelter in bad weather.

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A small market every Thursday around the Butter Cross. Set market times are not published.

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