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| | The Links Market, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The Links Market is officially recorded as having started in 1304, and at that time it was a weekly market for traders, farmers, craftsmen and the like. |
 | | The act of granting a royal charter to hold a market or fair was actually a means of raising taxes, and throughout the 13th and 14th centuries many towns across the country were granted such charters by the King. |
 | | Today the Links Market is dominated by exciting thrill-rides such as coasters, freefall towers, dodgems, rotors and tagadas, but there are still sideshow stalls, children’s rides and traditional helter-skelters and carousels. |
| www.linksmarket.org.uk /history.html (332 words) |
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