Covent Garden is a locality situated between Long Acre and the Strand in London. The name is a corruption of Convent Garden, which originally belonged to the Abbey of St Peter, Westminster. The square was laid out by Inigo Jones in 1632 and became a fashionable residential quarter. The fruit, flower and vegetable markets were set up in the middle of the 17th century, with later market buildings erected by the Duke of Bedford in 1831, but by the 1980s the flower and vegetable markets had all gone. Today the area is a popular tourist attraction with many fashionable restaurants, pubs and street performers. Research Covent Garden
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