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Spitalfields

Spitalfields grew around a wholesale fruit and vegetable market and a Huguenot silk-weaving industry, and retains a dense run of early Georgian houses built for master weavers.

Type
neighborhood
Status
A name in common use with no authority defining its extent.

Spitalfields is a customary district name in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, immediately outside the City of London boundary.

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  • Nightlife1
  • Markets1

Places in Spitalfields

Nightlife

The Ten Bells

Spitalfields

The Ten Bells is a public house on Commercial Street opposite Old Spitalfields Market in London, Grade II listed, retaining late-Victorian tiled panels including one depicting Spitalfields in the seventeenth century.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Markets

Old Spitalfields Market

Spitalfields

Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market east of the City of London, Grade II listed, in a hall of 1887 built for the wholesale fruit and vegetable trade and converted to general retail after the wholesale market moved in 1991.

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