Clare Market

Clare Market is a historic area in central London located within the parish of St Clement Danes to the west of Lincoln's Inn Fields, between the Strand and Drury Lane, with Vere Street adjoining its western side.

It was named after the food market which had been established in Clement's Inn Fields, by John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare.

Much of the area and its landmarks were immortalised by Charles Dickens in The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge and Sketches by Boz.

[2] The historic district includes large parts of the London School of Economics (LSE) and several academic buildings on the site bear the area's name.

A club of artists, including William Hogarth, met at the Bull's Head Tavern in the market.

Photo from 1901 showing buildings in New Inn Passage, Houghton Street, then called the *Clare Market Slum* , which was demolished as part of the Kingsway–Aldwych Improvement scheme in 1905. ^{[

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