Where Waits?

A list of towns and cities in the British Isles known to have employed their own Waits

Total so far: 162. To quote Tom Lehrer, “There may be many others, but they haven't been discovered!”. If you can add to this list, please

Aberdeen
Alnwick
Appleby
Ashbourne
Askrigg
Barnard Castle
Barnstaple
Barton-upon-Humber
Barwick-in-Elmet
Bath
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Beverley
Bewdley
Bewley
Blyth
Bodmin
Boston
Bradford
Bridgnorth
Bristol
Bungay
Bury St Edmunds
Burton-on-Trent
Calais
Cambridge
Canterbury
Carlisle
Castlebar
Chester
Chesterfield
Cockermouth
Colchester
Coventry
Darlington
Darneton
Dartford
Daventry
Derby
Doncaster
Dover
Dublin
Dunstable

Durham
Edinburgh
Elland
Ellerton
Exeter
Fakenham
Faversham
Gloucester
Grantham
Grimsby
Haddington
Hadleigh
Halifax
Haverfordwest
Hawick
Hereford
Hertford
Hexham
Hull
Huntingdon
Ipswich
Irvine
Islington
Jedburgh
Kendal
Keswick
King’s Lynn
Kingston-upon-Hull
Kirkby Lonsdale
Kirkby Steven
Kirkby Thore
Kirkudbright
Knaresborough
Lanark
Lancaster
Leeds
Leeke
Leicester
Lichfield
Lincoln
Linlithgow
Liverpool

London
   Blackfriars
   Finsbury
   Southwark
   St Giles
   Tower Hamlets
   Westminster
Loughborough
Louth
Ludlow
Lydd
Maidenhead
Maidstone
Malton
Manchester
Marlborough
Maxfield
Midlam/Middleham
Millom
Morpeth
New Romney
Newark
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newmarket
North Shields
Northampton
Norwich
Nottingham
Orton
Oxford
Penrith
Plymouth
Pocklington
Pontefract
Preston
Reading
Retford
Richmond
Ripley
Ripon

Rochester
Rotherham
Ruthin
St Eedes (St Ives?)
Salford
Salisbury
Sandwich
Scarborough
Sheffield
Shrewsbury
Skipton
Southam
Southampton
St Albans
Stamford
Stockton
Stone
Stony Stratford
Sunderland
Swaffham
Thetford
Thirsk
Wakefield
Walberswick
Warrington
Welby
Wells
Westchester
Whickham
Whitehaven
Wigan
Winchester
Worcester
Workington
Worksop
Wymondham
Yarmouth
York

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