Covent Garden , Lucy in Disguise

About Covent Garden Market. When I arrived in London it was the first place that I thought, wow, this is very fancy. People were on balconies having tea and pie during the evening or drinking wine...This place has a very interesting historical background:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The route of the Strand on the southern boundary of what was to become Covent Garden was used during the Roman period as part of a route to Silchester, known as "Iter VII" on the Antonine Itinerary.^[5]^[6] Excavations in 2006 at St Martin-in-the-Fields revealed a Roman grave, suggesting the site had sacred significance.^[7] The area to the north of the Strand was long thought to have remained as unsettled fields until the 16th century, but theories by Alan Vince and Martin Biddle that there had been an Anglo-Saxon settlement to the west of the old Roman town of Londinium were borne out by excavations in 1985 and 2005. These revealed Covent Garden as the centre of a trading town called Lundenwic, developed around 600 AD,^[8] which stretched from Trafalgar Square to Aldwych.^[2] Alfred the Great gradually shifted the settlement into the old Roman town of Londinium from around 886 AD onwards, leaving no mark of the old town, and the site returned to fields.^[9]
Around 1200 the first mention of an abbey garden appears in a document mentioning a walled garden owned by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. A later document, dated between 1250 and 1283, refers to "the garden of the Abbot and Convent of Westminster".^[10] By the 13th century this had become a 40-acre (16 ha) quadrangle of mixed orchard, meadow, pasture and arable land, lying between modern-day St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane, and Floral Street and Maiden Lane.^[11] The use of the name "Covent"—an Anglo-French term for a religious community, equivalent to "monastery" or "convent"^[12]—appears in a document in 1515, when the Abbey, which had been letting out parcels of land along the north side of the Strand for inns and market gardens, granted a lease of the walled garden, referring to it as "a garden called Covent Garden". This is how it was recorded from then on.

Near Covent Garden Piaza you can quickly arrive in Cecil Court - see this map!

I've already talked about Cecil Court Street: see this link.

So I reccomend you spend a day to go to this place, walk around, visit the Transport Museum next to Covent Market and eat an ice cream at The Icecreamists.

There are to Lily Allen's Vintage Store