List of market towns in London

Market place in Kingston upon Thames

Historic market right is celebrated in Romford

This is a list of market towns that are now within the current area of Greater London.^[1] That is, a settlement where the municipal corporation has a market right, received from the monarch. Dates indicate the earliest known charters. The use of the market rights has lapsed in some towns and in some cases the use of the right was later revived.

Town	Location	London borough	Charter	Coordinates
Barking	Barking Market	Barking and Dagenham	1175[2]	51.536°N 0.077°E / 51.536; 0.077 (Barking)
Brentford	Brentford Market	Hounslow	1306[3]	51.483°N 0.309°W / 51.483; -0.309 (Brentford)
Bromley	Bromley Market	Bromley	1205[4]	51.536°N 0.077°E / 51.536; 0.077 (Bromley)
Chipping Barnet	Barnet Market	Barnet	1199[5]	51.656°N 0.203°W / 51.656; -0.203 (Barnet)
Croydon	Surrey Street Market	Croydon	1276[6]	51.372°N 0.101°W / 51.372; -0.101 (Croydon)
Edgware	no longer exists	Barnet	no charter[7]	no longer exists
Enfield	Enfield Market	Enfield	1303[8]	51.652°N 0.082°W / 51.652; -0.082 (Enfield)
Kingston upon Thames	Kingston Market	Kingston upon Thames	1208[9]	51.536°N 0.077°E / 51.536; 0.077 (Kingston upon Thames)
Romford	Romford Market	Havering	1247[10]	51.579°N 0.181°E / 51.579; 0.181 (Romford)
St Mary Cray	no longer exists	Bromley	1207[11]	no longer exists
Uxbridge	Uxbridge Market (within The Mall Uxbridge)	Hillingdon	1180[12]	51.546°N 0.481°W / 51.546; -0.481 (Uxbridge)
Westminster	no longer exists	Westminster	1259[13]	no longer exists
Woolwich	Woolwich Market	Greenwich	1620[14]	51.490°N 0.069°E / 51.490; 0.069 (Woolwich)

See also

• List of markets in London
• Market (place)

References

1. Stow, W. (1772). "A List of all the Market Towns in England and Wales". Remarks on London. londonancestor.com. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
2. "The ancient parish of Barking: Agrarian history, markets and fairs, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5".
3. "Brentford Markets and Growers".
4. "Bromley Charter Market". Archived from the original on 2 April 2010.
5. "Barnet Market and Fair". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011.
6. "Issue 10" (PDF). Your Croydon.
7. "Edgware: Economic and social history, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4".
8. "Historical Information". The Old Enfield Charitable Trust. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012.
9. "Kingston Royal Walkabout". Archived from the original on 30 January 2010.
10. "Romford Town Centre". Archived from the original on 6 February 2009.
11. "Parishes: St Mary Cray, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2". 1797.
12. "Conservation Area Reviews" (PDF).
13. "Westminster". Gazetteer of the British Isles.
14. "Historic Woolwich".

External links

• Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516