London’s Pocket Parks: Smithfield Rotunda Garden, EC1

Sitting next to Smithfield meat market is a circular pocket park that was created to provide rest for the market workers. The space has been an open space forever, as it sits right in the middle of the old West Smithfield Market Place, which was later turned into the open-air meat market.However, there was growing pressure from the 1830s onwards to move the meat market out of London, and in 1860, it was decided that it was time to enclose the meat market into a building, which is the Smithfield