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COVENT GARDEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 340 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COVENT See also:

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

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