Agricultural History Review, Volume 37 Part 1 (1989), pp. 1–11

The accounts of the Glastonbury Abbey manors of Longbridge Deverill and Monkton Deverill provide unusually detailed information of the places where, and the persons with whom, the manors traded. Most of their grain went to markets within ten miles, though more distant markets were used more in years when grain fetched higher prices. Livestock was purchased at fairs further away than most of the grain markets. The majority of wool buyers came from towns within about twenty miles of the manors. Lengthy journeys were sometimes necessary to fetch items like millstones. Much of the manors' trading was informal, and with their own tenants. 

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