CHILDHOOD LOCATION
The market-town is identified as the place where Scrooge was bred and spent his boyhood, which is relevant to his personal history.
MARKET-TOWN
'Good Heaven!' said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. 'I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!' ... They walked along the road, Scrooge recognising every gate, and post, and tree, until a little market-town appeared in the distance, with its bridge, its church, and winding river.