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166  L ONDON AREA B Y AREA

Street-by-Street: Smithfield

This area is among the most historic in
London. It contains one of the capital’s old­ The Fox and Anchor
pub is open from 7am
est churches, some rare Jacobean houses, for hearty breakfasts,
vestiges of the Roman wall (near the washed down with
Museum of London) and central London’s ale by the market
only surviving whole­sale food market. traders of Smithfield.
Smithfield’s long history is also bloody.
In 1381, the rebel peasant leader Wat Tyler
was killed here by an ally of Richard II C H A R T E R H O U S E S Q U A R E
as he presented the king with demands
for lower taxes. Later, in the reign of
Mary I (1553–8), scores of Protestant
religious martyrs were burned at the
stake here.
C H A R T E R H O U S E S T R E E T L A N E

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C L O T H F A I R

3 . Smithfield Market
A contemporary print shows Horace
Jones’s stately building for the meat
market when it was completed in 1867. W E S T S M I T H F I E L D

Key
Suggested route

The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is a S M I T H F I E L D S T R E E T
small statue commemorating the fact
that the Great Fire was finally put out T
on Giltspur Street, saving buildings E
such as St Bartholomew-the-Great. E
R
St Bartholomew- C O C K L A N E S T
the-Less has a R
15th-century tower U
and vestry. Its links to P
the hospital are S
shown by this early S N O W H I L L L T
20th- century stained I
glass of a nurse, a gift G
from the Worshipful
Company of Glaziers.

St Bartholomew’s
Hospital (Bart’s) has
stood on this site
since 1123. Some of
the existing buildings
date from 1759.
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