Old Spitalfields Market

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Old Spitalfields Market
Old Spitalfields Market
Location	London, England, United Kingdom
Address	16 Horner Square, London EC1 6EW
Phone	+44 (0) 207-247-8556
Website	http://www.oldspitalfieldsmarket.com
Operation Hours	Thursday: 10 am - 4 pm
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Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. It is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. There has been a market on the site since 1638 when Charles I of England gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields - which was then a rural area on the eastern outskirts of London. After the rights to a market had seemingly lapsed during the time of the Commonwealth, the market was refounded in 1682 by Charles II in order to feed the burgeoning population of a new suburb of London. The original wholesale fruit and vegetable market moved to New Spitalfields Market in 1991. The market square of Old Spitalfields is a popular fashion, food, vintage and general market, open seven days a week, but is particularly lively on Sundays. In January 2011 Old Spitalfields Market received the award "Best Private Market" by NABMA, the National Association of British Market Authorities.