Haymarket, London

Haymarket is a street in the

New Zealand House

, a cinema complex and restaurants.

History

Origins

The broad street connecting

Charing the closest settlement. This practice continued to the reign of William III; by that time, carts carrying hay and straw were allowed in the street to trade, toll-free. In 1692, when the street was paved, a tax was levied on the loads:^[1] 3d for a load of hay and 2d for one of straw.^[2] In 1830, the market was moved by Act of Parliament to Cumberland Market near Regent's Park.^[3]

In earlier centuries, the Haymarket was also one of the centres of prostitution in London, but this is no longer the case. Old and New London informs us, in 1878:

Situated in the centre of the pleasure-going Westend population, the Haymarket is a great place for hotels, supper-houses, and foreign cafés; and it need hardly be added here, that so many of its taverns became the resort of the loosest characters, after the closing of the theatres, who turned night into day, and who were so constantly appearing before the sitting magistrates in consequence of drunken riots and street rows, that the Legislature interfered, and an Act of Parliament was passed, compelling the closing of such houses of refreshment at twelve o'clock.[1]

Theatres

It is part of

Theatre Royal at another site in the Haymarket is a building originally designed by John Nash (1820), replacing a previous theatre of the 1720s.^{[citation needed}

]

Haymarket today

Haymarket runs parallel to

A4 route from London to Avonmouth, near Bristol.^{[citation needed}

]

On 29 June 2007, the

Metropolitan Police Service "made safe" a car bomb that had been parked in Haymarket as part of the 2007 London attempted attacks

.

References

^ ^a ^b "The Haymarket". Old and New London. 4. British History Online: 216–226. 1878. Archived from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
^ Timbs, John (1855). Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis. D. Bogue. p. 428.
^ Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, eds. (1983). The London Encyclopaedia. London. p. 381.

51°30′31″N 00°07′55″W / 51.50861°N 0.13194°W / 51.50861; -0.13194

[old-1] "The Haymarket". Old and New London. 4. British History Online: 216–226. 1878. Archived from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.

[2] Timbs, John (1855). Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis. D. Bogue. p. 428.

[3] Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, eds. (1983). The London Encyclopaedia. London. p. 381.

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