Billingsgate, the UK’s largest inland fish market, first began trading in 1327 in Lower Thames Street, before it moved to its current home in Canary Wharf in 1982. This site in Poplar has now ...

The site, in Canary Wharf, is to close by 2028 after the City of London Corporation voted to withdraw its support of the market, as will Smithfield meat market. Billingsgate is the oldest fish ...

The two markets have histories dating back hundreds of years. A market has existed in some form in Smithfield since the mediaeval period, with the current premises built in the 19th century.