The first historical record of Covent Garden dates back to 1200, when it consisted of fields. Owned by Westminster Abbey, the land where the Market Building ...

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 ... Covent Garden tube station · New Covent Garden Market · Royal Ballet and Opera

15 февр. 2024 г. · It's said that the area was a trading spot as early as Saxon times (6th century).

Dating back to 1200, Covent Garden's first historical record describes it as fields owned by Westminster Abbey. Referred to as 'the garden of the Abbey and ...

14 нояб. 2024 г. · Originally a convent garden owned by the Benedictines of Westminster, the site was developed by the 4th earl of Bedford as the cities of London ...

Covent Garden became London's first planned suburb. In the first decades of the 17 th century Francis Russell, 4 th Earl of Bedford wanted to develop his land.

The area's name comes from the 'convent garden' cultivated here in the Middle Ages by the monks of the Abbey of Westminster, who sold their surplus crops on the ...

20 нояб. 2024 г. · Covent Garden was once a vegetable patch for monks. Now, it is one of the capital's most popular shopping districts.

5. Covent Garden was the first piazza in London. Influenced by the grand piazza's of Europe, Covent Garden's piazza was originally bounded by “portico houses” ...

26 мая 2024 г. · Covent Garden owes its name to the medieval market garden of the Benedictine Convent of St Peter's, Westminster. Henry VIII took possession ...