Market
The Covered Market
Eighteenth-century indoor market of narrow avenues lined with butchers, bakers, florists and cafés.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Covered Market in Oxford follows the money behind its shopfronts, from a smoothie stall in a shed to the florists, cake makers and boot sellers who rented these units in twenty twelve. It reaches back to the law of seventeen seventy-one that pushed the city's butchers and fishmongers indoors, and asks who a market under one landlord really works for. Best heard standing in one of the narrow avenues off the High Street.
This audio guide was created using AI.