London
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.
What is recorded here
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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.
2 of 2 places shown on the map. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.