Portobello Road Market is a street market in Portobello Road, in the Notting Hill area of West London, in England. The world-famous part of the market sells antique and draws many tourist. The main market day for antiques is Saturday. However, there are also many fruit and vegetable stalls in the market, which trade throughout the week and tend to be further north than the antiques. The market began as a fresh-food market in the nineteenth centur...
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Portobello Road Market is a street market in Portobello Road, in the Notting Hill area of West London, in England. The world-famous part of the market sells antique and draws many tourist. The main market day for antiques is Saturday. However, there are also many fruit and vegetable stalls in the market, which trade throughout the week and tend to be further north than the antiques. The market began as a fresh-food market in the nineteenth century; antiques dealers arrived in the 1960s.
The market section of Portobello road runs in a direction generally between the north-northwest and the south-south-east. The northern terminus is at Chesterton Road; the southern end is at a road called Ladbroke Gardens, to the west, and Westbourne Grove, to the east. The market area is about 3,080 feet (0.58 mile or 0.94 kilometre) long.
About one third of the way from its north end, the market runs beneath adjacent bridges of the A40 road and the Hammersmith & City line of the London...
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