Weyhill Fair

Traders from Cornwall, pilgrims from Winchester, horse-dealers driving their ponies from Weyhill Fair, have met on the roads that run into Farnham from the west and south and north.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Boots, brushes, earthenware, butter and lard, candles, bricks -- they were all of local make; cheese was brought back from Weyhill Fair in the waggons which had carried down the hops; in short, to an extent hard to realize, the town was independent of commerce as we know it now, and looked to the farms and forests and the claypits and coppices of the neighbourhood for its supplies.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

* [4] Weyhill Fair, near Andover, was another of the great fairs in the same district, which was to the West country agriculturists and clothiers what Winchester St. Giles's Fair was to the general merchants.

The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867