Where Waits?
A list of towns and cities in the British Isles known to have employed their own Waits or Town Pipers
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Aberdeen Alnwick Anstruther Appleby Arbroath Ashbourne Ashby de la Zouch Askrigg Banff Barnard Castle Barnstaple Barton-upon-Humber Barwick-in-Elmet Bath Belford (Northumberland) Bellingham Berwick-upon-Tweed Beverley Bewdley Bewley Biggar Blyth Bodmin Boston Bradford Brechin Bridgeton Bridgnorth Bristol Bungay Bury St Edmund Burton-on-Trent Calais Cambridge Canterbury Carlisle Castlebar Chester Chesterfield Cockermouth Colchester Coventry Crail Dalkeith Darlington Darneton Dartford Daventry Derby Doncaster Dover |
Dublin Dumfries Dumbarton Dundee Dunstable Durham Dysart Eaglesham Edinburgh Elland Ellerton Exeter Fakenham Falkirk Faversham Galashiels Glasgow Glenluce Gloucester Grantham Grimsby Haddington Hadleigh Halifax Haverfordwest Hawick Hereford Hertford Hexham Honiton Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Irvine Islington Jedburgh Keith Kelso Kendal Keswick Kilbarchan King's Lynn Kingston-upon-Hull Kirkby Lonsdale Kirkby Steven Kirkby Thore Kirkudbright Kirkwall |
Knaresborough Lanark Lancaster Lauder Leeds Leek Leicester Lichfield Lincoln Linlithgow Liverpool London: City of London Blackfriars Finsbury Southwark St. George's St Giles St. Pancras Tower Hamlets Westminster Loughborough Louth Ludlow Lydd Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Marlborough Marshfield Maxfield meltonMowbray Midlam/Middleham Millom Morpeth Musselburgh New Romney Newark Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newmarket North Berwick North Shields Northampton Norwich Nottingham Orton Oxford Peebles Penrith Perth Plymouth |
Pocklington Pontefract Preston Reading Retford Richmond Ripley Ripon Rochester Rotherham Ruthin St Eedes (St Ives?) Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Sheffield Shrewsbury Skipton Southam Southampton St Albans Stamford Stockton Stone Stony Stratford Sudbrooke (Lincolnshire) Sunderland Swaffham Thetford Thirsk Towcester Uttoxeter Wakefield Walberswick Warrington Welby Wells Westchester Whickham Whitehaven Wigan Wigton Winchester Worcester Workington Worksop Wymondham Yarmouth York |
3 December 2009
In Mark Brayshay's 2005 tome on "Waits, musicians, bearwards and players", he finds us four new sets of waits:
The Waits of Belford (Northumberland?), Sudbrooke (Lincs.) and Melton Mowbray are documented as playing in Nottingham. The Waits of Marshfield (his map shows the one near Chippenham, but I suspect it's more likely to be the one near Solihull) played at Coventry. So how many does that make now?
Regards,
Alan Radford, Leeds.
15 July 2010
A couple of new London groups are identified on the
www.worldmilitarybands.com website, from their surviving badges (circa 1800) bringing to nine the number of identified groups in London:
St. George's
St. Pancras
The former parish is in the City of London, just west of the Tower, where the Parish Church (now demolished) stood on Botolph Lane. St Pancras needs no explanation.
Alan Radford, Leeds.
Registered Charity Number 1127315.
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All the towns and cities in this list employed their own Waits.
Total so far: 197.
To quote Tom Lehrer, "There may be many others, but they haven't been discovered!" If you can add to this list, please email us: Al Garrod