Haymarket

Haymarket may mean:

Places

Australia

• Haymarket, New South Wales, area of Sydney, Australia

Sweden

• Haymarket is the English name of Hötorget

United Kingdom

• Haymarket (London), street in Westminster, London
• Newcastle Haymarket, section of Newcastle upon Tyne city centre, England
  • Haymarket bus station, bus station in Newcastle upon Tyne, above
• Haymarket, Edinburgh, area of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Haymarket railway station, railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland

United States

• Haymarket, Virginia, town in Prince William County, Virginia, USA
• Haymarket Square (Boston), area in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, still used for open-air markets, though several blocks from the historic square
  • Haymarket (MBTA station), a metro station serving the above location in Boston
• Haymarket Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts)
• Haymarket House, cooperative household in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Haymarket (Louisville), former outdoor farmer's market in Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Other

Haymarket may refer to:

• Haymarket affair, 1886 incident in Chicago, Illinois
• Haymarket Theatre, theatre in London
• Haymarket Shopping Centre, shopping centre in Leicester
• Haymarket Theatre, theatre in Leicester
• Haymarket Group, magazine publishing firm
• Haymarket Books, non-profit publisher of left-wing literature in the United States

Etymology

When horses and other domesticated animals were still being kept within the confines of European cities most larger cities had a market place that was primarily used for the sale of hay for the animals. And the name of the market place, "hay market", lives on in many European cities and in several different languages, including Haymarket in London, England, Heumarkt in Cologne, Germany and Vienna, Austria and Hötorget in Stockholm, Sweden. All three names literally mean "hay market".