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Visitors to Holsworthy will discover that this small country town has a long and interesting history. The first settlement was established in Saxon times and is mentioned in the Doomsday Book under the name Haldeuri - meaning Harolds Land.

Holsworthy is described as a Port town. The word port was a Saxon term for a secure place for trade - a market. A charter was granted to Fulk de Paganet in the latter part of the 12th Century to hold a market and fair.

Another charter is loudly proclaimed by the town crier every year during Pretty Maid ceremony, during St. Peter's fair week. This ceremony includes the town's best kept secret because no-one except the girl, her family and a small group of trustees, knows her identity. On the stroke of midday the chosen maid appears with the Rector at the door of the Church to be presented to the townsfolk.

The busy pannier market is held on Wednesdays in the town square and the W.I. market is held at the Memorial Hall, also on Wednesdays. So Wednesdays is perhaps the best day to visit Holsworthy when the streets are full of life and activity.