Convent Garden
from having been originally the garden of the Abbot of Westminster, is a spacious square in London, celebrated for a great market held within it of fruit, vegetables, and flowers. The square was formed about 1631 from the designs of Inigo Jones. In the 17th century Covent Garden was a very fashionable quarter of the town. The market, now so famous, appears to have originated about 1656 in a few wooden sheds and stalls. It was long the property of the noble House of Bedford, but in 1913 the Duke of Bedford sold the property. London's most famous opera house, the Covent Garden Theater, is located there.