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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Charing Cross Road, Holborn, Drury Lane, Cumberland Market, Edgware Road, Cleveland Street, London, Euston Road, Tottenham Court Road, Mornington Crescent, Gower Street, Abbey Road, Charlotte Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Seven Dials, London, New Road, Gray's Inn Road, Hatton Garden, Great Queen Street, A201 road, Southampton Row, Doughty Street, Denmark Street, Ely Place, Museum Street, Little Green Street, Kingsway, Farringdon Road, Chester Terrace, Chancery Lane, Cromer Street, Albany Street, York Way, Finchley Road, Malet Street, Cumberland Terrace, South Hill Park, Floral Street, Cambridge Circus, London, Saffron Hill, Birkenhead Street, London, Tavistock Street, High Holborn, Great Russell Street, Camden High Street, St Giles Circus, Woburn Place, Chalk Farm Road, Vere Street, Camden, Drummond Street, London, Leather Lane, Royal College Street, Lamb's Conduit Street, Guilford Street. Excerpt: Cumberland Market was a London market between Regent's Park and Euston railway station. It was built in the early 19th century and was London's hay and straw market for a hundred years until the late 1920s. An arm of the Regent's Canal was built to the market. The market was surrounded by modest housing, and in the early 20th century became an artistic community. The original houses were demolished during and after the Second World War and it is now a housing estate, known as Regent's Park Estate. The land to the east of John Nash's Regent's Park development had originally been laid out as a service district with small houses for tradesmen and three large squares intended for the marketing of hay, vegetables and meat., Only Cumberland Market, the northernmost square survived as a commercial area. London's hay market relocated here from the Haymarket (near Piccadilly Circus) in 1830 although it was never to prove a great suc...
