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Smithfield is home to the largest wholesale meat market in the UK, with an 800 year history. Nearby religious martyrs were burned at the stake, the leader of the Peasants revolt Wat Tyler was slain by the Lord Mayor, and Barts Hospital founded. The area will change substantially over the next decade as the market moves to Barking, and the Museum of London develops a new home in West Smithfield.
Smithfield or, to give it its official name, London Central Markets, is the largest wholesale meat market in the UK and one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
Located within the Square Mile of the City of London it is housed in three listed buildings.
It is a place packed with history there has been a livestock market on the site for over 800 years and yet is as modern as tomorrow with its state of the art facilities for the receiving, storing and despatching of meat and poultry. (Website)
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8 Smithfield Meat Market has been operating almost constantly for over 800 years. In the Middle Ages, Smithfield was a wide grassy space, with access to grazing and water from the River Fleet. Until 1855 cattle, sheep and horses were brought into Smithfield to be sold or slaughtered. In June 1855 the live market was closed due to complaints about the chaos and mess caused by driving live cattle to what was now central London. After 1886, cattle were slaughtered elsewhere and the meat brought to the newly-erected Smithfield Meat Market by train.
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Wikipedia
Smithfield, London - Wikipedia
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Smithfield, London - Wikipedia • en.wikipedia.org
The Buildings of Smithfield Market - A London Inheritance
Smithfield Market is a historic market in the heart of the City, home to meat, poultry and fish markets, the site will soon become the new Museum of London
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The Buildings of Smithfield Market - A London Inheritance • alondoninheritance.com
Smithfield Market: The iron legacy of Sir Horace Jones
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Smithfield Market: The iron legacy of Sir Horace Jones • www.londonmuseum.org.uk
EC1 Echo
Welcome to the “meet” market
The Smithfield area is going to change beyond recognition – but we may have to wait for a decade By Peter Bill In January two moulds were cast for the transformation of Smithfield Meat Market. Desi…
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Welcome to the “meet” market • www.ec1echo.co.uk
‘Our own little congregation’: the people of London’s soon-to-close Smithfield market
Poultry market is closing this month and all meat traders will be gone in five years as historic site becomes new home of Museum of London
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‘Our own little congregation’: the people of London’s soon-to-close Smithfield market • www.theguardian.com
The Last Days of Smithfield Market - Spitalfields Life photos
Meat traders’ anger over works delays
Smithfield ‘must continue to flourish until we can move’
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Meat traders’ anger over works delays • www.islingtontribune.co.uk
Smithfield Market to turn lights out on a millennium of history
An 850 year old document describes a livestock market for swine, cows, oxen and woolly flocks at Smithfield.Smithfield meat market, the direct inheritor of centuries of tradition on the site, is now set to close in the next few years.Walks available for bookingFor a schedule of forthcoming London On The Ground guided walks, please click here.The account of the livestock market is from a description of London written by William Fitzstephen in around 1174 as a prelude to his biography of Thomas Be
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Smithfield Market to turn lights out on a millennium of history • www.londonontheground.com
Centre for creative industries
Smithfield Market — new makers bureau
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Smithfield Market — new makers bureau • www.newmakersbureau.com
Reference
John Morgan wrote A Potted History of Smithfield Market for The Clerkenwell Post, and although the website is now down, you can find the text on the Internet Archive
Joan Brown, Secretary at Smithfield Market - Spitalfields Life
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/23/the-last-days-of-smithfield-market/