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Covent Garden Market I am a student from Westminster city school Boys I have been studying about Covent Garden and the history to it... history information to Covent Garden . History The area around Covent Garden stretching down to The Strand was, in mid Saxon times, A trading settlement known from contemporary charters as Lundenwic. Covent Garden derives its name ("Convent Garden") from the presence there in the Middle Ages of a garden belonging to Westminster Abbey. In the sixteenth century this land was acquired by Henry VIII and granted to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford. The Bedford interest was to determine the development of the site, which remained in family possession until 1918. Bedford House amid its garden occupied the southern side of the site, the rest remaining as mainly pasture until the succession of the 4th Earl in 1627. The framework of tire piazza which he built survives to...

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