Hoxton market

Names

  • Hoxton market

Street/Area/District

  • Hoxton market

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from Survey of London: Volume 8, Shoreditch, ed. James Bird (London County Council; British History Online) (1922)

[Hoxton Market.] Ball and Brown, the owners of the long lease [of Pitfield], endeavoured to establish a market on their property, and on 17th January, 1687–8, obtained a licence to hold two markets a week "apud Pitfeild prope Hogsden," namely, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, for the buying and selling of all kinds of flesh, fish and other provisions. (fn. 29) The project seems to have fallen through, and several references occur to "a parcell of ground lately used or intended to be used for a markett place called Hogsden Markett, but since converted into a square." (fn. 30) This is the origin of the square still called Hoxton Market.

29. Patent Roll, 3300.
30. See e.g., Middx. Reg. Mls., 1717, II., 204.