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New Spitalfields Market is a fruit and vegetable market on a 31-acre (13 ha) site in Leyton, London Borough of Waltham Forest in East London. The market is owned and administered by the City of London Corporation. The market is Europe's leading horticultural market specialising in exotic fruit and vegetables - and the largest revenue earning ...
Smithfield Market is a meat market that was originally a live cattle market. [8] Spitalfields Market, a food market which relocated in 1991 [9] to New Spitalfields Market, Leyton. [10] The original market site is still used as a market selling fashion, art and design, food and vintage goods and is part of a revival of the surrounding area.
The market square is a popular fashion, arts and crafts, food and general market, open seven days a week, but is particularly busy at weekends. Operationally, the area is run as two adjacent marketplaces: Old Spitalfields Market to the east, [7] and the 1926 extension of Spitalfields Market to the west. [8]
Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, which have traded in London for hundreds of years, face the axe.
Spitalfields Market may refer to: Old Spitalfields Market, a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London; New Spitalfields Market, a market in ...
The name Spitalfields appears in the form Spittellond in 1399; as The spitel Fyeld on the "Woodcut" map of London of c.1561; and as Spyttlefeildes, also in 1561. [3] The land belonged to St Mary Spital, a priory or hospital (a lodging for travellers run by a religious order) erected on the east side of the Bishopsgate thoroughfare in 1197, from which its name is thought to derive ("spital ...
The New Spitalfields Market, relocated in 1991 from the Old Spitalfields market, is the UK's leading horticultural market specialising in exotic fruit and vegetables. There are two main shopping areas in the district, located at opposite ends of the High Road. There is a large retail park at Leyton Mills, next to the station.
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