Complex sentence: Trades in the town appear to have remained dependent on the sheep production of the surrounding area until at least the later middle ages, including dyers, butchers, tanners, clothiers, shoemakers, fullers, weavers and the like.
Split into simpler sentences: Trades in the town appear to have remained shaped by the sheep production of the surrounding area for several centuries. In the middle ages they were recorded as including dyers, butchers, tanners, clothiers, shoemakers, fullers, weavers and the like.