Editing Covent Garden (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Map of Covent Garden.png|thumb|[[OpenStreetMap]] of the area]]

Historically, the Bedford Estate defined the boundary of Covent Garden, with Drury Lane to the east, the Strand to the south, St Martin's Lane to the west, and Long Acre to the north.<ref name=Hibbert>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wN_H-__MBpYC&pg=PA214 |title=[[The London Encyclopaedia]] |chapter=Covent Garden market |pages=213–214 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5 |author1=Christopher Hibbert |author2=Ben Weinreb |author-link1=Christopher Hibbert |author-link2=Ben Weinreb |access-date=25 October 2015 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729181348/https://books.google.com/books?id=wN_H-__MBpYC&pg=PA214 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, over time the area regarded as part of Covent Garden has expanded northwards past Long Acre to [[High Holborn]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert Thorne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezBNAAAAYAAJ&q=+proper+boundaries |title=Covent Garden Market: Its History and Restoration |page=2 |publisher=Architectural Press |year=1980 |isbn=0-85139-098-6 |access-date=25 October 2020 |archive-date=3 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103175430/https://books.google.com/books?id=ezBNAAAAYAAJ&q=+proper+boundaries |url-status=live}}</ref> Since 1971, with the creation of the Covent Garden Conservation Area which incorporated part of the area between St Martin's Lane and Charing Cross Road,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Covent%20Garden%20Extension%20Report.pdf |work=westminster.gov.uk |title=Covent Garden Extension Report |author=Conservation Area Audits Team |date=2007 |access-date=17 November 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924104710/http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Covent%20Garden%20Extension%20Report.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> Charing Cross Road has sometimes been taken as its western boundary.<ref name=ENTS90>{{cite web |url=http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Covent_Garden_ENTS_SPG_July_2006.pdf |work=westminster.gov.uk |title=Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance for Entertainment Uses |page=99 |date=July 2006 |access-date=17 November 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924105503/http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Covent_Garden_ENTS_SPG_July_2006.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coventgarden.org.uk/our-neighbourhood/covent-gardeners-and-their-area/ |publisher=CGCA |work=coventgarden.org.uk |title=Our Neighbourhood |access-date=16 June 2019 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928095217/https://www.coventgarden.org.uk/our-neighbourhood/covent-gardeners-and-their-area/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Long Acre is the main thoroughfare, running north-east from St Martin's Lane to Drury Lane.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coventgarden.uk.com/featureshistory/fh_streets.php?street=91&submit=Go&submitted=TRUE&p_id=features&c_id=street |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717145520/http://www.coventgarden.uk.com/featureshistory/fh_streets.php?street=91&submit=Go&submitted=TRUE&p_id=features&c_id=street |archive-date=17 July 2011 |title=Street features: Long Acre |publisher=Covent Garden London: Online Magazine |access-date=30 July 2010}}</ref> Shelton Street, running parallel to the north of Long Acre, marks the London borough boundary between Camden and Westminster.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gis.camden.gov.uk/geoserver/Ward.html |title=Ward and polling district map |publisher=Camden Council |access-date=15 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223757/http://gis.camden.gov.uk/geoserver/Ward.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The area to the south of Long Acre contains the [[Royal Opera House]], the market and central square, and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], and the London Transport Museum; while the area to the north of Long Acre is largely given over to independent retail units centred on Neal Street, Neal's Yard and [[Seven Dials, London|Seven Dials]]; though this area also contains residential buildings such as Odhams Walk, built in 1981 on the site of the [[Odhams]] print works,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://asc2.futura.com/CaseStudies/Odhams/Overview/Default.aspx |title=Showcase: Odham's Walk: Overview |publisher=Academy for Sustainable Communities |access-date=8 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120192132/http://asc2.futura.com/CaseStudies/Odhams/Overview/Default.aspx |archive-date=20 November 2008}}</ref> and is home to 7,000 residents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coventgarden.org.uk/membership/join-cgca/ |title=Membership of The Covent Garden Community Association |publisher=Covent Garden Community Association |access-date=15 July 2016 |archive-date=24 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724003126/http://www.coventgarden.org.uk/membership/join-cgca/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

For a list of street name etymologies in Covent Garden see: ''[[Street names of Covent Garden]]''.

{{Geographic location
|title     = '''Neighbouring areas of London'''
|Northwest = [[St Giles, London|St Giles]]
|North     = [[Bloomsbury]]
|Northeast = [[Holborn]]
|West      = [[Leicester Square]]
|Centre    = Covent Garden
|East      = [[Lincoln's Inn Fields]]
|Southwest = [[Trafalgar Square]]
|South     = [[Strand, London|Strand]]
|Southeast = [[Temple, London|Temple]]
}}