At a loose end one Saturday, I took myself off to visit the site of the ancient Weyhill Fair, near Andover, about which I had read just that morning in the latest copy of Pagan Dawn.
The site was used, usually on different dates, as a sheep and cattle market, a labour exchange (like where Hardy's Gabriel Oak tried to hire himself out as a shepherd) and a purely leisure fair. I also found from information boards around the place that it became a hop exchange for the beer trade, mostly in the control of hop barrons based around Farnham. (Why so far from home, I have no idea.)
The site is now partly industrial estate and partly given over to a craft market. The old cob-built hop sheds now serve as craft outlets and the obligatory twee coffee shop.
Hop sheds now doing duty as craft shops