Abingdon Runaway Fair 2022
From:
17 October 2022
To:
17 October 2022
Abingdon Town Centre
Abingdon Town Centre
Abingdon-on-Thames
OX14 3HG
17 October 2022 @ 12.00pm to 11.00pm
About Abingdon Runaway Fair 2022
The fair for “runaways” who wanted a different master
The Abingdon Runaway Fair is a smaller funfair that takes place on the Monday, one week after the Abingdon Michaelmas Fair in October.
The origin of the fair lies in the tradition of championing the rights of the common man. This hiring fair was held specifically so that farmworkers and others who had been hired at the earlier Michaelmas Fair and had found their new master cruel or the conditions intolerable could quite literally “run away”, i.e. return back to the town for another try at finding suitable paid work before the winter set in.
