Surrey St Cafe

at , London , CR0 1 United Kingdom

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<p><b>Surrey Street Market</b> is a <a href="/pages/w/106064639424972">street market</a> located in Surrey Street, <a href="/pages/w/105508709483399">Croydon</a>, <a href="/pages/w/105524626148893">south London</a>. It operates six days a week . It sells mainly fruit & <a href="/pages/w/110532125640919">vegetables</a>, and a range of other items.</p><h2>History</h2><p>A market may have existed in Croydon as early as the <a href="/pages/w/135303653167274">Anglo-Saxon</a> period, but the earliest certain evidence is from 1236-7, when an isolated account roll refers to <a href="/pages/w/101873489855054">stallage</a> fees. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_town%23England" class="wikipedia">market charter</a> was granted to the town by <a href="/pages/w/132731363432331">Robert Kilwardby</a>, <a href="/pages/w/108510269171354">Archbishop of Canterbury</a>, in 1276; and further charters were granted in 1314 by Archbishop <a href="/pages/w/138014842887144">Walter Reynolds</a>, and (probably) in <i>c</i>.1343 by Archbishop <a href="/pages/w/129378507098614">John de Stratford</a>.</p><p>The medieval <a href="/pages/w/112644825417581">marketplace</a>, perhaps laid out in 1276, occupied the triangle of land now defined by the High Street, Surrey Street, and Crown Hill. To take advantage of the slope of the ground, it seems that the higher and well-drained east side came to be used for corn-trading, and the lower-lying west side (Butcher Row, now Surrey Street) for trading in livestock, meat, and hides. By the later Middle Ages, however, the open marketplace was becoming <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infill%23Urban_planning" class="wikipedia">infilled</a> with buildings. A building on the east side was bought for use as a <a href="/pages/w/111988585487398">market house</a> (mainly for corn-trading) in 1566, and was succeeded by another cornmarket nearby in 1609. The older market house was probably taken over as a general provisions market, and was rebuilt for that purpose (as the so-called Butter Market) in 1708: it continued to be used until 1874.</p>

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Surrey St Cafe is London based place and this enity listed in Local Business category. CR0 1.