Leather Lane Market
A weekday street market on Leather Lane in Holborn with about 120 stalls, best known now for lunchtime street food such as falafel and burritos, alongside fruit and veg, household goods and fashion.
- Market
- Price: Free
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Did you know
The market probably began around 1666, when people left homeless by the Great Fire sheltered in the undeveloped Hatton Garden area, and Henry Mayhew counted 150 stalls here in 1851.
Local tip
It trades Monday to Friday only, roughly 10am-2pm, aimed at the office lunch crowd (hours from an older listing, so check locally). Chancery Lane is the closest tube.
Finding it
- Address
- Leather Lane, Holborn, London EC1N
- Nearest station
- Farringdon (National Rail), 263 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Prufrock CoffeeOne of the shops that helped kick off London's specialty coffee scene, still roasting and pulling shots on Leather Lane.
- Catalyst Coffee RoastersA coffee roaster and café on a corner of Gray's Inn Road in Holborn, roasting and grinding its own beans on site since 2016.
- Ye Olde MitreA tiny 16th-century pub hidden down an unmarked alley off Hatton Garden, easy to walk straight past if you don't know it's there.
- The Betsey TrotwoodA Victorian pub named after the Dickens character from David Copperfield, with a cosy wood-panelled basement hosting folk sessions, indie acts, and spoken word.