Market Hill, Cambridge

[1][2] Operating as a marketplace since Saxon times, a daily outdoor market with stalls continues to run there.

It is connected via the following streets (clockwise from the north): On the west side of Market Hill is Great St Mary's, the Cambridge University Church, with its tower on King's Parade.

The current Market Square was mainly filled with buildings originally and was not cleared until 1849 when a major fire occurred.

Flow to this branch was cut off in 1960 during construction of the Lion Yard shopping centre development and has never been restored.

[9] During the 1381 Peasants' Revolt, a mob led by the Mayor of Cambridge destroyed the university's ledgers in Market Square on 16 June.