![]() The 4th Earl commissioned Inigo Jones to build some fine houses to attract wealthy tenants. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was granted in 1552 by the young King Edward VI to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford ( c.1485–1555), the trusted adviser to his father King Henry VIII. By 1200 part of it had been walled off by the Abbot of Westminster Abbey for use as arable land and orchards, later referred to as "the garden of the Abbey and Convent", and later "the Convent Garden". ![]() The area was fields until briefly settled in the 7th century when it became the heart of the Anglo-Saxon trading town of Lundenwic, then abandoned at the end of the 9th century after which it returned to fields. The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the historical buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the London Transport Museum and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". ![]() ![]() List of places UK England London 51☃0′45″N 0☀7′21″W / 51.5125°N 0.1225°W / 51.5125 -0.1225Ĭovent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. ![]()
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