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Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.^[1]

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A4200 road

The A4200 is a major thoroughfare in central London.

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Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Aiberdeenshire; Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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After the Ball (musical)

After the Ball is a musical by Noël Coward based on the 1892 play by Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan.

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Alan Jay Lerner

Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist.

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Alan George Vince (30 March 1952 – 23 February 2009) was a British archaeologist who studied Saxon, medieval and early modern ceramics through the application of petrological, geological and archaeological techniques.

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Aldwych

Aldwych (pronounced) is a street and the name of the area immediately surrounding it, in the City of Westminster, part of Greater London, and is part of the West End Theatreland. Covent Garden and Aldwych are districts of the City of Westminster.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.

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Anglo-Saxon London

The Anglo-Saxon period of the history of London lasted from the 7th to the 11th centuries.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Antonine Itinerary

The Antonine Itinerary (Itinerarium Antonini Augusti, "Itinerary of the Emperor Antoninus") is an itinerarium, a register of the stations and distances along various roads.

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Apple Store

The Apple Store is a chain of retail stores owned and operated by Apple Inc. The stores sell, service and repair various Apple products, including Mac desktop and MacBook laptop personal computers, iPhone smartphones, iPad tablet computers, Apple Watch smartwatches, Apple TV digital media players, software, and both Apple-branded and selected third-party accessories.

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Arable land

Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Arcade (architecture)

An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or piers.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Augusto Pinochet

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.

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Battersea

Battersea is a large district in southwest London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bedford House, Strand

Bedford House also called Russell House was the Elizabethan and Jacobean London home of the Russell family, Earls of Bedford, situated on the site of the present Southampton Street on the north side of the Strand.

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Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England.

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Beecham's Pills

Beecham's Pills were a laxative first marketed about 1842 in Wigan, Lancashire.

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Beefsteak Club

Beefsteak Club is the name or nickname of several 18th- and 19th-century male dining clubs in Britain and Australia that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig concepts of liberty and prosperity.

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Benedictines

The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop

Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop is a shop selling vintage and retro toys in London's Covent Garden.

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Betty Careless

Betty Careless or Betsy Careless (–1739) was a notorious prostitute and later bagnio-owner in 18th-century London.

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Bicycle-sharing system

A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme, is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost.

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Bike lane

Bike lanes (US) or cycle lanes (UK) are types of bikeways (cycleways) with lanes on the roadway for cyclists only.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London, part of the London Borough of Camden in England. Covent Garden and Bloomsbury are districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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BOC (company)

BOC Limited is a British based multinational, industrial gas company.

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Bow Street

Bow Street is a thoroughfare in Covent Garden, Westminster, London.

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Bow Street Magistrates' Court and Police Station

Bow Street Magistrates' Court (formerly Bow Street Police Court) and Police Station each became one of the most famous magistrates' courts and police stations in England.

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Bow Street Police Museum

The Bow Street Police Museum, opened in 2021, is based in the former police station in Covent Garden, London.

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Brothel

A brothel, bordello, bawdy house, ranch, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.

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Camden Town

Camden Town, often shortened to Camden, is an area in the London Borough of Camden, around north-northwest of Charing Cross. Covent Garden and Camden Town are districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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Campaign for Real Ale

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation headquartered in St Albans, England, which promotes real ale, cider and perry and traditional British pubs and clubs.

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Chambers and Partners

Chambers and Partners (often noted elsewhere as Chambers & Partners) is a research firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, that produces international rankings for the legal industry.

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Charing Cross railway station

Charing Cross railway station (also known as London Charing Cross) is a central London railway terminus between the Strand and Hungerford Bridge in the City of Westminster.

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Charing Cross tube station

Charing Cross (sometimes informally abbreviated as Charing +, Charing X, CHX or CH+) is a London Underground station at Charing Cross in the City of Westminster.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charles Fowler

Charles Fowler (17 May 1792 – 26 September 1867) was an English architect, born and baptised at Cullompton, Devon.

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Charles Hart (actor)

Charles Hart (bap. 1625 – 18 August 1683) was a prominent British Restoration actor.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.

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Charrington Brewery

Charrington Brewery was founded in Bethnal Green, London, in the early 18th century by Robert Westfield.

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Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)

Cities of London and Westminster (known as City of London and Westminster South from 1974 to 1997) is a constituency returning a single Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons in the United Kingdom Parliament.

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City and Liberty of Westminster

The City and Liberty of Westminster was a unit of local government in the county of Middlesex, England.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status in Greater London, England.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Clapham

Clapham is a district in south west London, England, lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas (including Clapham Common) extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Clara Fisher

Clara Fisher (14 July 1811 – 12 November 1898) was a British prodigy who, at the age of six, began performing on the London stage in 1817.

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Cochrane Theatre

The Cochrane Theatre, previously known as the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, was a receiving and producing theatre situated in Holborn, London, that opened in 1964.

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Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate.

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries.

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Contraflow lane

In transport engineering nomenclature, a counterflow lane or contraflow lane is a lane in which traffic flows in the opposite direction of the surrounding lanes.

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County of London

The County of London was a county of England from 1889 to 1965, corresponding to the area known today as Inner London.

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Covent Garden tube station

Covent Garden is a London Underground station serving Covent Garden and the surrounding area in the West End of London.

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COVID-19 pandemic in London

The first case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in London, England, was confirmed on 12 February 2020 in a woman who had recently arrived from China.

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Dan Leno

George Wild Galvin (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904), better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era.

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David Garrick

David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Drury Lane

Drury Lane is a street on the eastern boundary of the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn.

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Duke of Bedford

Duke of Bedford (named after Bedford, England) is a title that has been created six times (for five distinct people) in the Peerage of England.

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Edmund Kean

Edmund Kean (4 November 178715 May 1833) was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris.

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Edward Middleton Barry

Edward Middleton Barry RA (7 June 1830 – 27 January 1880) was an English architect of the 19th century.

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Edward Shepherd

Edward Shepherd (died 1747) was a prominent London-based English architect and developer in the Georgian period.

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Edward VI

Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553.

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Eliza Doolittle

Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady.

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Embankment tube station

Embankment is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster, known by various names during its history.

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Euston railway station

Euston railway station (or London Euston) is a major central London railway terminus managed by Network Rail in the London Borough of Camden.

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Every Day Except Christmas

Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, which was at that point still in central London.

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In an extradition, one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, into the custody of the other's law enforcement.

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Fin de siècle

Fin de siècle is a French term meaning "end of century", a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom "turn of the century" and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Flavio

Flavio, re de' Longobardi ("Flavio, King of the Lombards", HWV 16) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel.

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Floral Street

Floral Street is a narrow street in the Covent Garden area of London, England.

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Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford

Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford PC (1587 – 9 May 1641) was an English nobleman and politician.

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Free Cinema

Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s.

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Freemasons' Tavern

The Freemasons' Tavern was established in 1775 at 61–65 Great Queen Street in the West End of London.

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Frenzy

Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Fuller's Brewery

Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick, west London, England, is the former brewing division of Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC.

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Gaby's Deli

Gaby's Deli was a family Jewish restaurant in London's Charing Cross Road.

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GE Capital

GE Capital was the financial services division of General Electric.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Gov.uk

gov.uk (styled on the site as GOV.UK) is a United Kingdom public sector information website, created by the Government Digital Service to provide a single point of access to HM Government services.

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Great Queen Street

Great Queen Street is a street in the West End of central London in England.

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Grosvenor Group

Grosvenor Group Limited is an internationally diversified property group, which traces its origins to 1677 and has its headquarters in London, England.

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Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1760 to 1794, was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian London.

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Harry Mallaby-Deeley

Sir Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley, 1st Baronet (27 October 1863, London – 4 February 1937, Cannes) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Hawley Harvey Crippen

Hawley Harvey Crippen (September 11, 1862 – November 23, 1910), colloquially known as Dr.

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Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth

Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, KB (15 January 1596 – 13 June 1661) was an English nobleman and translator.

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Henry Clutton

Henry Clutton (19 March 1819 – 27 June 1893)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | was an English architect and designer.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford

Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, (19 February 1858 – 27 August 1940) was an English politician and peer.

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High Holborn

High Holborn is a street in Holborn and Farringdon Without, Central London, which forms a part of the A40 route from London to Fishguard.

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Holborn

Holborn, an area in central London, covers the south-eastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part (St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars) of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London. Covent Garden and Holborn are districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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Holborn and Covent Garden (ward)

Holborn and Covent Garden is a ward of the London borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom.

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Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency)

Holborn and St Pancras is a parliamentary constituency in Greater London that was created in 1983.

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Holborn tube station

Holborn is a London Underground station in Holborn, Central London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway.

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Holland, Hannen & Cubitts

Holland, Hannen & Cubitts was a major building firm responsible for many of the great buildings of London.

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Holy Royal Arch

The Royal Arch is a degree of Freemasonry.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Inigo Jones

Inigo Jones (possibly born Ynyr Jones; 15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant architect in England in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

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Irish National Opera

Irish National Opera is one of Ireland's largest arts organisations and presents opera in Dublin, on tour across Ireland and internationally.

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Isaac de Caus

Isaac de Caus (1590–1648) was a French landscaper and architect.

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Italianate architecture

The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

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Ivor Novello

Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

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James Earl Ray

James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive who was convicted of the Murder of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

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James Hackman

James Hackman (baptized 13 December 1752, hanged 19 April 1779), briefly Rector of Wiveton in Norfolk, was the man who murdered Martha Ray, singer and mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

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Jane Douglas

Jane Douglas (– 10 June 1761), commonly known as Mother Douglas, was a brothel-keeper in mid-18th century London.

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Johann Strauss II

Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (Johann Strauß Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.

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John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS (13 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten.

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John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford

John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (1485 – 14 March 1555) was an English royal minister in the Tudor era.

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John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, (6 July 1766 – 20 October 1839), known as Lord John Russell until 1802, was a British Whig politician who notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry of All the Talents.

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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court, who reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era.

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Jubilee Market

Jubilee Market is located in Jubilee Hall in Covent Garden, London. Covent Garden and Jubilee Market are tourist attractions in the City of Westminster.

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King's Cross St Pancras tube station

King's Cross St Pancras (also known as King's Cross & St Pancras International) is a London Underground station on Euston Road in the Borough of Camden, Central London.

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Kray twins

Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 193320 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 19331 October 2000) were English organised crime figures, and identical twin brothers from Haggerston, who were prominent from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968.

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Ladbroke Estate

The Ladbroke Estate was a substantial estate of land owned by the Ladbroke family in Notting Hill, London, England, in the early 19th century that was gradually developed and turned into housing during the middle years of the century, as London expanded.

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Lamb and Flag, Covent Garden

The Lamb and Flag is a Grade II listed public house at Rose Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2.

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Lease

A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the user (referred to as the lessee) to pay the owner (referred to as the ''lessor'') for the use of an asset.

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Leicester Square

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England.

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Leicester Square tube station

Leicester Square is a London Underground station in the West End of London, within walking distance of Theatreland and Chinatown.

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Letters patent

Letters patent (plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title or status to a person or corporation.

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Lincoln's Inn

The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar.

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Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London.

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Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave.

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List of award-winning pubs in London

This is a list of award-winning pubs in London.

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List of cycle routes in London

This is a list of cycle routes in London that have been waymarked with formal route signage include 'Cycleways' (including 'Cycle Superhighways' and 'Quietways) and the older London Cycle Network, all designated by the local government body Transport for London (TfL), National Cycle Network routes designated by the sustainable transport charity Sustrans, and miscellaneous 'Greenways' created by various bodies.

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List of private residents of Covent Garden

The entries in this tabulation cover some 150 years in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the private residents of Covent Garden included many people of rank and note.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Livorno

Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region, Italy.

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Londinium

Londinium, also known as Roman London, was the capital of Roman Britain during most of the period of Roman rule.

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London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden is a London borough in Inner London, England.

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London Buses

London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL) that manages most bus services in London, England.

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London Buses route RV1

London Buses route RV1 was a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Electric Railway

The London Electric Railway (LER) was an underground railway company operating three lines on the London Underground.

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London General Omnibus Company

The London General Omnibus Company or LGOC, was the principal bus operator in London between 1855 and 1933.

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London Passenger Transport Board

The London Passenger Transport Board was the organisation responsible for local public transport in London and its environs from 1933 to 1948.

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London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum (LTM) is a transport museum based in Covent Garden, London.

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London Waterloo station

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a major central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Long Acre

Long Acre is a street in the City of Westminster in central London.

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Magistrates' court (England and Wales)

In England and Wales, a magistrates' court is a lower court which hears matters relating to summary offences and some triable either-way matters.

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Maiden Lane, Covent Garden

Maiden Lane is a street in Covent Garden, London, that runs from Bedford Street in the west to Southampton Street in the east.

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Manorialism

Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages.

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Martha Ray

Martha Ray (1746 – 7 April 1779) was a British singer of the Georgian era.

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Martin Biddle

Martin Biddle, (born 4 June 1937) is a British archaeologist and academic.

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Masonic lodge

A Masonic lodge, also called a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.

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Metropolitan Board of Works

The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) was the upper tier of local government for London between 1856 and 1889, primarily responsible for upgrading infrastructure.

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Metropolitan Borough of Holborn

The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was a metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965.

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Metropolitan Borough of Westminster

The Metropolitan Borough of Westminster was a metropolitan borough in the County of London, England, from 1900 to 1965.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

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My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

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National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors

The National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors was a register of public houses in the United Kingdom with interiors which had been noted as being of significant historic interest, having remained largely unchanged for at least 30 years, but usually since at least World War II.

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National Pub of the Year

The National Pub of the Year is an annual competition held by CAMRA, the winner of which is announced in the February of the year following that in which the competition is run, that finds the best pub in the UK.

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National Rail

National Rail (NR) is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales.

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Neal's Yard

Neal's Yard is a small alley in London's Covent Garden between Shorts Gardens and Monmouth Street which opens into a courtyard.

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Nell Gwyn

Eleanor Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period.

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New Covent Garden Market

New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms, London, is the largest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the United Kingdom.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.

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Nine Elms

Nine Elms is an area of south-west London, England, within the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Northern line

The Northern line is a London Underground line that runs from North London to South London.

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Odhams Press

Odhams Press was a British publishing company, operating from 1920 to 1968.

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Old Slaughter's Coffee House

Old Slaughter's Coffee House was a coffee house in St Martin's Lane in London.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Ospedale degli Innocenti

The 'Hospital of the Innocents', also known in old Tuscan dialect as the Spedale degli Innocenti, is a historic building in Florence, Italy.

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Patent theatre

The patent theatres were the theatres that were licensed to perform "spoken drama" after the Restoration of Charles II as King of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1660.

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Paul Curran (director)

Paul Curran (born 1964) is a Scottish opera director.

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Paul the Apostle

Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.

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Peacock Theatre

The Peacock Theatre (previously the Royalty Theatre) is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, located in Portugal Street, near Aldwych.

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Peerage

A peerage is a legal system historically comprising various hereditary titles (and sometimes non-hereditary titles) in a number of countries, and composed of assorted noble ranks.

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Peppercorn (law)

In legal parlance, a peppercorn is a metaphor for a very small cash payment or other nominal consideration, used to satisfy the requirements for the creation of a legal contract.

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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.

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Piazza San Marco

Piazza San Marco (Piasa San Marco), often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square"). Covent Garden and Piazza San Marco are Odonyms referring to religion.

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Piccadilly line

The Piccadilly line is a deep-level London Underground line running from the north to the west of London.

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Place des Vosges

The Place des Vosges, originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, France.

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Planning permission in the United Kingdom

Planning permission in the United Kingdom is the planning permission required in the United Kingdom in order to be allowed to build on land, or change the use of land or buildings.

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Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr.

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Punch Pubs

Punch Pubs & Co is a pub and bar operator in the United Kingdom, with around 1,300 leased pubs.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Pygmalion (play)

Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure.

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Rachel Russell, Lady Russell

Rachel, Lady Russell (Wriothesley; – 29 September 1723) was an English noblewoman, heiress, and author.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.

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Robert Carr

Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, (11 November 1916 – 17 February 2012) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Home Secretary from 1972 to 1974.

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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (3 February 183022 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Rules (restaurant)

Rules is a London restaurant on Maiden Lane in Covent Garden. Covent Garden and Rules (restaurant) are tourist attractions in the City of Westminster.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.

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Santander Cycles

Santander Cycles (formerly Barclays Cycle Hire) is a public bicycle hire scheme in London in the United Kingdom.

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Seven Dials, London

Seven Dials is a road junction and neighbourhood in the St Giles district of the London Borough of Camden, within the greater Covent Garden area in the West End of London.

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Shaftesbury Capital

Shaftesbury Capital, formerly Capital & Counties Properties plc, (Capco) is a United Kingdom-based property investment and development company focused on sites in the West End of London, including Covent Garden, Chinatown London and Carnaby Street, Soho.

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Silchester

Silchester is a village and civil parish about north of Basingstoke in Hampshire.

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Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood

The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood (SPBW), founded in 1963, is the oldest consumer-based group interested in stimulating the brewing of, increasing the awareness of, and encouraging the drinking of traditional cask ale.

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South Kensington

South Kensington is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Covent Garden and South Kensington are districts of the City of Westminster.

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St Giles District (Metropolis)

St Giles District was a local government district in the metropolitan area of London, England from 1855 to 1900.

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St Giles, London

St Giles is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Camden. Covent Garden and St Giles, London are districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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St Martin in the Fields (parish)

St Martin in the Fields was a civil parish in the county of Middlesex, later part of the new County of London, England.

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St Martin's Lane

St Martin's Lane is a street in the City of Westminster, which runs from the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, after which it is named, near Trafalgar Square northwards to Long Acre. Covent Garden and st Martin's Lane are Odonyms referring to religion.

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St Martin-in-the-Fields

St Martin-in-the-Fields is a Church of England parish church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London.

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St Paul Covent Garden

St Paul Covent Garden was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England.

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St Paul's, Covent Garden

St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, central London.

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Strand District (Metropolis)

Strand was a local government district within the metropolitan area of London, England, from 1855 to 1900.

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Strand, London

The Strand (commonly referred to with a leading "The", but formally without) is a major street in the City of Westminster, Central London. Covent Garden and Strand, London are districts of the City of Westminster.

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Street names of Covent Garden

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Covent Garden.

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Survey of London

The Survey of London is a research project to produce a comprehensive architectural survey of central London and its suburbs, or the area formerly administered by the London County Council.

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Syon Park

Syon Park is the garden of Syon House, the London home of the Duke of Northumberland in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow.

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Temple, London

The Temple is an area of the City of London surrounding Temple Church. Covent Garden and Temple, London are districts of the City of Westminster.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The First Bohemians

The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age is a 2013 book by the British writer and academic Vic Gatrell.

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The Football Association or the FA is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Harp

The Harp is a public house at 47 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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The Ivy

The Ivy is a British restaurant founded in 1917 known for its popularity with celebrities.

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The London Encyclopaedia

The London Encyclopaedia, first published in 1983, is a 1,100-page historical reference work on London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, covering the whole of the Greater London area.

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The NoMad

The NoMad was an integrated hotel and restaurant owned by the Sydell Group and located in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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The Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.

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The Roxy (Covent Garden)

The Roxy was a fashionable nightclub located at 41–43 Neal Street in London's Covent Garden, known for hosting the flowering British punk music scene in its infancy.

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The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.

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The Royal Opera

The Royal Opera is a British opera company based in central London, resident at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

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The Salisbury, Covent Garden

The Salisbury is a Grade II listed public house at 91–93 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden, London which is noted for its particularly fine late Victorian interior with art nouveau elements.

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Thomas Hardwick

Thomas Hardwick (1752–1829) was an English architect and a founding member of the Architects' Club in 1791.

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Thomas Killigrew

Thomas Killigrew (7 February 1612 – 19 March 1683) was an English dramatist and theatre manager.

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Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton

Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, KG (10 March 1607 – 16 May 1667), styled Lord Wriothesley before 1624, was an English statesman, a staunch supporter of King Charles II who after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 rose to the position of Lord High Treasurer, which term began with the assumption of power by the Clarendon Ministry.

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Town square

A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.

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Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, established in the early 19th century around the area formerly known as Charing Cross. Covent Garden and Trafalgar Square are tourist attractions in the City of Westminster.

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Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom.

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Trolleybus

A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing..or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd.

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United Grand Lodge of England

The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) is the governing Masonic lodge for the majority of freemasons in England, Wales, and the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Vauxhall

Vauxhall is an area in London and is located in the London Borough of Lambeth and is in Central London.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated. Covent Garden and west End of London are districts of the City of Westminster and districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Covent Garden and Westminster Abbey are tourist attractions in the City of Westminster.

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Westminster St Margaret and St John

St Margaret was an ancient parish in the City and Liberty of Westminster and the county of Middlesex.

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William Cubitt (politician)

William Cubitt (1791 – 28 October 1863), lord mayor of London, was an English engineering contractor and Conservative Party politician.

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.

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William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford

William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford KG PC (August 1616 – 7 September 1700) was an English nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited his Peerage as 5th Earl of Bedford and removed to the House of Lords.

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William Russell, Lord Russell

William Russell, Lord Russell (29 September 163921 July 1683) was an English Country Party politician and nobleman.

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Woburn Abbey

Woburn Abbey, occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford.

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Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford

Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford KG (1 November 1680 – 26 May 1711) was an English nobleman and politician.

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