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First started a thousand years ago on London Bridge, where country farmers brought
fresh goods to the city gates, the market now sits here under a Victorian arcade. The rail-
road rumbling overhead, knifing right through dingy apartment houses (and the Globe
Tavern), only adds to the color of London's oldest vegetable market and public gathering
spot.
A detour westward through the market leads to Park Street, with an old 19th-century
ambience that makes it popular as a filming location. Check out the colorful pub and the
fragrant cheese shop at Neal's Yard Dairy.
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Walk to the river along Cathedral Street, veering left at the Y. (Alternatively, from the far
end of the market, turn right down Stoney Street, then right again on Clink Street.)
Golden Hinde
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As we all learned in school, “Sir Francis Drake circumcised the globe with a hundred-foot
clipper.” Or something like that...
