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SMITHFIELD
AND SPITALFIELDS

These two areas, just north and east of the are both vibrant, atmospheric quarters.
City walls, have long offered refuge to those London’s traditional meat market still oper ates
who did not want to come under the City’s at Smithfield, while the markets of Spitalfields,
jurisdiction, or were not welcome there, such Brick Lane and Columbia Road together form
as the French Huguenots in the 17th century an essential Sunday destination, with their
and, in later times, other immigrants from eclectic stalls, vintage fashions, food stands
Europe and then Asia. They founded small and beautiful blooms. While Smithfield tends
industries and brought with them their cuisines to be quiet at weekends, Brick Lane and
and places of worship, and as a result these Spitalfields have a buzzing late-night scene.
Sights at a Glance
Historic Streets and Buildings Churches and Mosques Restaurants see pp302–4
1 Museum of the Order of St John 5 St Bartholomew-the-Great 1 L’Anima
2 Charterhouse 7 St Botolph, Aldersgate 2 Boho Mexica
4 Cloth Fair 8 St Giles, Cripplegate 3 The Boundary
9 Barbican t Christ Church, Spitalfields 4 Le Café du Marché
q Wesley’s Chapel–Leysian Mission u Brick Lane Jamme Masjid 5 Carnevale
y Fournier Street a St Leonard’s Church 6 Cây Tre
i 19 Princelet Street Cemeteries 7 Club Gascon
o Brick Lane 0 Bunhill Fields 8 The Culpeper
p Dennis Severs’ House 9 Galvin la Chapelle
Markets 10 Hawksmoor
Museums and Galleries
6 Museum of London pp170–71 3 Smithfield Market 11 Pham Sushi
12 St John
e Whitechapel Gallery w Petticoat Lane
r Old Spitalfields Market 13 Vinoteca
s Columbia Road Market
COLUMBIA RD
VIRGINIA RD
OLD STREET RIVINGTON STREET CALVERT AVE
Old CURTAIN RD SHOREDITCH HIGH ST
Street
PAUL ST
S T R E E T ST GREAT EASTERN ST CLUB ROW BRICK LANE
O L D BANNER ST B U N H I L TABERNACLE LEONARD ST BETHNA L GREEN RD
LUKE STREET
SCLATER
BALTIC STREET CITY ROAD CURTAIN ROAD High Street
STREET
Shoreditch
SHOREDITCH
CLERKENWELL GOLDEN LANE W H I T E C R O S S S T DUFFERIN ST L R O W W O R S H I P S T R E ET QUAKER STREET
FANN ST BUNHILL FINSBURY SQUARE CLIFTON STREET PRIMROSE ST FOLGATE COMMERCIAL
FIELDS
EARL ST
MOOR LANE
Barbican ALDERSGATE STREET BEECH STREET CHISWELL STREET SUN ST APPOL D ST SQUARE LAMB ST
WILSON ST
SPITAL
CHARTERHOUSE ST FORE STREET Moorgate MOORGATE SOUTH PLACE Liverpool NORTON BRUSHFIELD ST S T R E E T FASHION K L AN E
SILK ST
LO N G L A N E
ROPEMAKER
ST
Street
BRIC
STREET
WHITE'S
ROW
WENTWORTH STREET
LIVERPOOL ST
ALDGATE HIGH ST WHITECHAPEL HIGH ST
East
ANGEL ST L O N D O N WA L L BLOMFIELD ST NEW BROAD ST BISHOPSGATE MIDDLESEX STREET STREET Aldgate
OLD CASTLE
NEWGATE ST
HOUNDSDITCH
Aldgate
0 metres 500
0 yards 500
Street Finder maps 6, 7,
8, 15, 16
Columbia Road flower and plant market For keys to symbols see back flap
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