You trade on the line between two districts, which is why no two directories agree whether Queen's Market is in one or the other.

Green Street

A shopping street that is also the boundary, with Queen's Market at the top of it.

Green Street runs from Romford Road down to Barking Road and forms the boundary between East Ham and West Ham. That is not a technicality: it means the shops on one side and the shops on the other are in different districts, and a business here can be described accurately by two different place names, or by a third if a directory files it under the station at the top of the road.

The street has a strong retail identity of its own. It specialises in goods from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan alongside Afro-Caribbean and African food stores, and it has been known as Little India since the 1990s. Queen's Market sits near the top of the street. The Boleyn Tavern stands at Morley's Corner, at the Barking Road junction, and Green Street House, known as Boleyn Castle, stood here for more than 400 years before it was demolished in 1955.

The southern end carries the heaviest association. The Boleyn Ground was the home of West Ham United from 1904 to 2016, and it stood at that end of this street. The names have not settled since: the ground was universally called Upton Park after the station, the club is called West Ham, and the street itself is the boundary of East Ham. Older parts of the road had different names again, with the northern section historically called Gypsy Lane until 19th-century urbanisation and the southern extension known as Blind Lane before being renamed Boundary Road.