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Broadway Market, London

Retail markets in LondonStreets in the London Borough of HackneyUse British English from October 2013
Hackney, Broadway Market geograph.org.uk 1728061
Hackney, Broadway Market geograph.org.uk 1728061

Broadway Market is a street in the London Borough of Hackney, best known for the street market held there. Licences to trade are issued by a committee of councillors from Hackney London Borough Council. The street is on the traditional boundary of the Haggerston area of Shoreditch (the south-west part of the street) and Hackney proper. Old 'Borough of Shoreditch' signs can still be seen above street name signs in that south-west part of the street.

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Broadway Market, London
Broadway Market, London Haggerston (London Borough of Hackney)

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Broadway Market

Broadway Market
E8 4PH London, Haggerston (London Borough of Hackney)
England, United Kingdom
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