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Market trading has taken place on this spot since 1154, when Peter de Bermingham was granted a charter of marketing rights by King Henry II. The name derives from the sixteenth-century practice of bull-baiting in the market square, a spectacle long since abandoned but preserved in the six-tonne bronze bull sculpture that now presides over Rotunda Square, one of the most photographed public artworks in the city. In 1964 the site became home to the United Kingdom's first indoor city-centre shoppi...