Brook Market
Names
- Brook Market
- Brooks Market
- Brook's Market
Street/Area/District
- Brook Market
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Brook Market
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Brooks Market
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Brooks Market
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Brooks Market, at the N. end of Brook str. abovesd.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Brook Market, a good large and convenient Place, with Shambles, a Market House, and Stalls, &c. for that Use; but is of small Resort, as to the Market, but the Shambles is pretty well served with Meat.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Brook’s market, by Brook street, Holborn: so denominated from the Lord Brook’s city mansion, at the north corner of the market.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Brook's Market, Holborn,—is the N. end of Brook-street, from 140, Holborn, about ¼ of a mile on the R. from Fleet-market.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Brook's-Market, Holborn, is the north end of Brook's-street, going from Holborn, about a quarter of a mile on the right hand from from Farringdon-street.