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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district of central London built around a piazza laid out by Inigo Jones in the 1630s, which held London's principal fruit and vegetable market until 1974.

Type
neighborhood
Status
A name in common use with no authority defining its extent.

Covent Garden is a customary name for the area around the seventeenth-century piazza, spanning the boundary between the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden.

What is recorded here

Counts describe this corpus, not the area as a whole.

  • Performing arts1
  • Markets1
  • Restaurants1
  • Nightlife1
  • Civic & heritage1

Places in Covent Garden

Performing arts

Royal Opera House

Covent Garden

The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden is the home of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet. The present building of 1858 by E. M. Barry is Grade I listed and was extensively rebuilt behind its facade in the 1990s.

Markets

Covent Garden Market Building

Covent Garden

The Covent Garden Market Building is the neoclassical market hall of 1830 by Charles Fowler at the centre of the Covent Garden piazza in London. The wholesale market left in 1974 and the building reopened in 1980 as shops and stalls. It is Grade I listed.

Restaurants

Rules

Covent Garden

Rules is a restaurant on Maiden Lane in Covent Garden, trading since 1798 and the oldest restaurant in London. Its premises are Grade II listed.

Nightlife

The Lamb and Flag

Covent Garden

The Lamb and Flag is a public house on Rose Street in Covent Garden, Grade II listed, reached through a narrow covered alley off Garrick Street.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Civic & heritage

The Savoy

Covent Garden

The Savoy is a hotel on the Strand in London, opened in 1889 beside the Savoy Theatre, Grade II listed, and the first luxury hotel in Britain to be lit throughout by electricity.

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