Downham Market

Downham Market, now and then basically alluded to as Downham, is a market town and common ward in Norfolk, England. It lies on the edge of the Fens, on the River Great Ouse, around 11 miles south of King's Lynn, 39 miles west of Norwich and 30 miles north of Cambridge. The common ward has a zone of 5.2 km² and in the 2011 enumeration had a populace of 9,994 of every 4,637 families. For the motivations behind neighborhood government, the ward falls inside the area of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. It is a piece of South West Norfolk parliamentary supporters. It was an agrarian focus, creating as a business opportunity for the deliver of the Fens with an extension over the Ouse.

Amid the Middle Ages, it was popular for its spread market and furthermore facilitated a remarkable pony reasonable. The market is currently held Fridays and Saturdays on the town corridor auto stop. Striking structures in the town incorporate its medieval area church, committed to St Edmund, and Victorian clock tower, developed in 1878. The town is otherwise called where Charles I covered up after the Battle of Naseby. In 2004 the town finished a recovery venture on the Market Place, moving the market to the town corridor auto stop. The brightening town sign portrays the crown and bolts of St Edmund with steeds to demonstrate the significance of the pony fairs in the town's history.