Hungerford Market

Hungerford Market was a market in London, near Charing Cross on the Strand, housed in two different buildings on the same site from around 1680 to 1862. The first market was held from about 1680 in a London house of the Hungerford family. This building became dilapidated, and was replaced by a new Italianate market building which opened in 1833. The new market was unsuccessful. It was damaged when the adjoining Hungerford Hall burned down in 1854, and was sold to the South Eastern Railway in 1862. Charing Cross railway station was built on the site and opened in 1864. The site was the property of the Hungerford family, who were based at Farleigh Hungerford Castle near Bath, since it was acquired by Sir Walter Hungerford, Speaker of the...