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COVENT GARDEN

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 but by the 1980s had all gone. Today the area is a popular tourist attraction with many fashionable restaurants, pubs and street performers.
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