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Petticoat Lane Market

London's oldest clothes market on Sunday mornings, and a weekday street-food court on Wentworth Street the rest of the week.

A market since the 1650s, named for the petticoats sold on it; the street was renamed Middlesex Street in the nineteenth century to lose the undergarment, and nobody took any notice. Sunday is its day, a habit of the Jewish traders who could not work Saturdays, made legal by Parliament in 1936: hundreds of stalls of clothing, accessories, toys and perfume along Middlesex Street and Wentworth Street. On weekdays the reason to come is the food court on Wentworth Street and Goulston Street, lunch from a dozen kitchens for the offices on the City side of the road.

Where
Middlesex Street and Wentworth Street, E1 7JF
Nearest station
London Liverpool Street · 2 min walk

Hours

Monday11:00 – 15:00
Tuesday11:00 – 15:00
Wednesday11:00 – 15:00
Thursday11:00 – 15:00
Friday11:00 – 15:00
SaturdayClosed
Sunday09:00 – 15:00

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 6 September 2026.

Sunday 09:00 to 15:00 is the full market on both streets; Monday to Friday it is the lunchtime food court only, on Wentworth Street and Goulston Street, which the market's own site gives as running to 15:00 on one page and 15:30 on another.

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