New Covent Garden Market is a wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market, known as 'London's Larder', located in Nine Elms between Vauxhall and Battersea, South West London. Covering a site of 56 acres (227,000 m²), it contains approximately 250 fruit, vegetable and flower companies. Nine Elms is a district of London, situated in the far north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Wandsworth between Battersea and Vauxhall. ... Vauxhall is an inner city area of south London in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...
The Market is run by a government agency, the Covent Garden Market Authority, set up in 1961 and charged with modernising and overseeing the administration of the vegetable market which was considered strategically important as a wholesale food and flower market, providing ingredients for London's restaurants, schools, prisons, hospitals and other mass caterers. Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wholesaling consists of the sale of goods/merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. ... A professionally catered event Catering is the business of providing food service at a remote site. ...
The Market opened for the first time on November 11, 1974, construction having started in 1971 on the site of the former Nine Elms Locomotive Works. The Market is so called because it transferred directly from its previous location at Covent Garden in central London. is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Nine Elms railway works was in the district of Nine Elms in the London Borough of Battersea. ... Covent Garden is a district in London, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
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Forty acres (160,000 m²), known as "le CoventGarden" plus "the long acre", were granted by royal patent in perpetuity to the Earl of Bedford.
The modern-day CoventGarden has its roots in the early seventeenth century when land ("the Convent's Garden") was redeveloped by Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford.
NewCoventGarden is celebrating its 30th anniversary in Vauxhall this year.
The market in fact dates back to medieval days when the Abbey of Westminster owned the ‘Convent Garden’ from which surplus produce was sold to Londoners near to the Strand.
A regular market grew up and in 1670 Charles II granted a charter to the Earl of Bedford to hold a market there.
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