Bloomsbury Market
Names
- Bloomsbury Market
- Southampton Market
- Blomesbury Market
Street/Area (default name)
- Bloomsbury Market
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Bloomsbury Market
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Bloomsbury Market
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Bloomsbury Market
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Blomesbury Market, on the NW side, and towards the SW end of High Holbourn, near S. from the Square, and betn Vernons Row and Castle str. it is chiefly for Flesh and Fowl.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Bloomsbury Market, a Place of no great Account. ...
Bloomsbury Market is a long Place with two Market Houses, the one for Flesh, and the other for Fish: but of small Account, by Reason the Market is of so little Use, and so ill served with Provisions; insomuch that the Inhabitants are served elsewhere.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Bloomsbury market, by Bloomsbury square.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Bloomsbury-Market, Lyon-Street, Holborn,—at the N. end of it, five doors from 143, High-Holborn.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Bloomsbury-Market, is at the north end of Lyon-street, Holborn, five doors up from No. 143, High Holborn.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Bloomsbury Market, established in 1662, and at first called Southampton Market.
Bloomsbury Market is a long place with two Market houses, the one for flesh, the other for fish, but of small account, by reason the Market is of so little use and so ill served with provisions; insomuch that the inhabitants are served elsewhere.—Strype, B. iv. p. 84.
It never was well served, and was swept away about 1847, when New Oxford Street was formed, but Market Street still remains. Robert White, the engraver, lived in Bloomsbury Market as early as 1683, and died there suddenly in 1704.