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COVENT GARDEN

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COVENT

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GARDEN  , formerly an open space
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north of the Strand,
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London,
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England, now occupied by the
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principal
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flower,
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fruit and
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vegetable
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market in the
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metropolis . This was originally the so-called "
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convent
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garden " belonging to the
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abbey of St
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Peter,
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Westminster . In the first
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half of the 17th
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century the site of the garden was laid out as a square by Inigo
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Jones, with a piazza 'on two sides; and as
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early as 1656 it was becoming a market
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place for the same commodities as are now sold in it . Covent Garden
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Theatre (1858) is the
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chief seat of
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grand
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opera in London . The site has carried a theatre since 1733, but earlier buildings were burnt in 1809 and 1856 .

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