ABSTRACT
Medieval towns were constantly active places, with residents, visitors, traders, religious staff, workers, administrators and paupers, each with living and working space, and each potentially leaving a multiplicity of physical marks on the urban landscape whether in terms of buildings, belongings or waste. Wallingford is a well-documented medieval town, and various historians have made useful interpretations of the material. The documents can be viewed as vital sources for the history of the town's government, society and economy. There are many other documents in the archives of the Corporation of Wallingford, but the borough court rolls have been chosen for analysis because they seem to offer the prospect of insights into the history of the town in a long and continuous series. A core target of the Wallingford Burh to Borough Research Project has been to examine and understand better the medieval population housed within the town's monumental ramparts and to consider its structural and material evolution across the Middle Ages.
