Covent Garden Station
Covent Garden Station sits at the heart of a district that blends transport hub with a storied street-life history. Today you’re near Covent Garden’s famed central square, once home to the open-air fruit-and-vegetable market that gave the area its nickname. The station itself is part of a neighborhood defined by long, city-shaping arcs—Long Acre runs through the area, with Neal’s Yard and Seven Dials to the north, and the central square flanked by theatres and the London Transport Museum to the south. The district’s roots reach back to Anglo-Saxon times when Lundenwic traded on nearby fields, evolving after 1200 as land given to religious hands and later transformed by Edward VI into a fashionable enclave. Inigo Jones is believed to have crafted the square’s Italianate arcades and the church of St Paul, with the square’s design inspiring later London developments and town planning ideas. …
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