It operates six days a week, Monday to Saturday, and mainly sells fruit and vegetables.

A market may have existed in Croydon as early as the Anglo-Saxon period, but the earliest certain record is from 1236–7, when an isolated account roll refers to stallage fees.

A building on the east side was bought for use as a market house (mainly for corn-trading) in 1566, and was succeeded by another cornmarket nearby in 1609.

[6] The street included an inn called The Bell which was later rebuilt as the Dog & Bull in the 18th century.

A minority of traders, mistrusting the change, continued to hold a rival Saturday cornmarket until 1892.

However, in 1893 the entire triangle (by this date known as Middle Row) was comprehensively cleared and redeveloped by Croydon Corporation.