Dunmow

Four market towns fill up the rest of this part of the country — Dunmow, Braintree, Thaxted, and Coggeshall — all noted for the manufacture of bays, as above, and for very little else, except I shall make the ladies laugh at the famous old story of the Flitch of Bacon at Dunmow, which is this:

A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

Four market towns fill up the rest of this part of the country — Dunmow, Braintree, Thaxted, and Coggeshall — all noted for the manufacture of bays, as above, and for very little else, except I shall make the ladies laugh at the famous old story of the Flitch of Bacon at Dunmow, which is this:

A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

Dunmow, Braintree, Thaxted, and Coggeshall -- all noted for the manufacture of bays, as above, and for very little else, except I shall make the ladies laugh at the famous old story of the Flitch of Bacon at Dunmow, which is this:

Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 Daniel Defoe 1696

I was visiting friends in Great Dunmow (which coincidentally has a great medieval tradition of its own) for dinner and drinks.

Merry Medieval Monday: Unexpectedly Confronting the Past Mary Kate Hurley 2008

Nor let the supposition of matrimonial differences frighten you: honey-moon lasts not now-a-days above a fortnight; and Dunmow flitch, as I have been informed, was never claimed; though some say once it was.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

It was largely owing to the extreme kindness and hospitality of the inhabitants of the delightful little village of Harlow, amongst whom was the evergreen veteran Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., that we were fed and breakfasted and able to continue the march the following day, 14 miles to Dunmow.

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

Barons in the days of King John; and it may be noted in passing that either to the last-named or his son Walter, as lord of Dunmow in Essex, has been ascribed the institution of the Flitch.

The Customs of Old England

The _Punch_ man asked if he had read the Dunmow evangel.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917 Various

You may ride to Dunmow in Essex, to see the country of Mr. Britling; and to Wigborough, near Colchester, the haunt of Mr. McFee's painter-cousin in "Aliens."

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

Heigham of Dunmow, Essex, a gentleman of means and an ardent

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913