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'''The Fairs Act 1871'''<ref>This [[short title]] was conferred on this Act by [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YQRVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false section 1] of this Act.</ref> (34 & 35 Vict c 12) is an [[Act of Parliament|Act]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]. It empowered the [[Home Secretary|Secretary of State for the Home Department]] in the [[United Kingdom]] to, on petition, make orders for the abolition of fairs. Such provision was made at this time by [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] because many fairs traditionally held in early [[Victorian England]] were, according to the preamble to the act, held to be |
'''The Fairs Act 1871'''<ref>This [[short title]] was conferred on this Act by [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YQRVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false section 1] of this Act.</ref> (34 & 35 Vict c 12) is an [[Act of Parliament|Act]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]. It empowered the [[Home Secretary|Secretary of State for the Home Department]] in the [[United Kingdom]] to, on petition, make orders for the abolition of [[Fair|fairs]]. Such provision was made at this time by [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] because many fairs traditionally held in early [[Victorian England]] were, according to the preamble to the act, held to be |
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The Fairs Act 1871[1] (34 & 35 Vict c 12) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It empowered the Secretary of State for the Home Department in the United Kingdom to, on petition, make orders for the abolition of fairs. Such provision was made at this time by Parliament because many fairs traditionally held in early Victorian England were, according to the preamble to the act, held to be
Fairs abolished under the act included Ickleton Fair in Cambridgeshire[2] and St Matthew's Fair in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.[citation needed]
