Covent Garden
About Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and 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". 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.
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The name Covent Garden is actually a bastardization of the word convent; it should really be Convent Garden.
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Basket Jim worked at the Covent Garden market in the 1920s and 30s, and there's footage of him carrying a stack of 25 baskets on his head.
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Inigo Jones designed Covent Garden as a completely bare square for the Earl of Bedford, the first ever piazza in the UK.
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Inigo Jones built grand doors on St Paul's Covent Garden to open onto the piazza, but the church insisted the altar face east, so those doors are false ones.
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