0 a small town in the countryside, especially in Europe, that has a regular market and acts as a business centre for surrounding farms and villages: --
I had gone to a horsecoper in our neighbouring market town to buy a spare hunter.
This particular farm is about four miles from a railway station, and over 20 miles from the nearest market town.
Every market town possessed its local brewery, where the local farmers could sell their barley to the brewers.
The old-age pensioners who live there and who have no motor cars cannot travel to the market town.
If one wishes to go into a market town, often one can go only by car because there is no possible alternative.
Therefore, a market town is not separated from its suburbs and the area it serves.
It is an attractive old market town, although more could be done to make it more attractive still.
In addition, the two general practices in the nearby market town are full.
