Until fifty or so years ago every village, and even one as small as a hamlet, could boast of having its own shop. Since then the increasing mobility of people due to car-ownership has led to the steady decline in the number of village shops.
Origins of these shops For centuries past people living in the countryside away from the towns and cities would have been dependent on itinerant tradesmen for household items they could not obtain locally. Up until the eighteenth century these travellers were known as “chapmen”, terms such as pedlar, hawker or tallyman then being used. These tradesmen would generally travel from one town to another, so as to be in each on their market and fair-days, stopping off at villages as they went.
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