Westminster Abbey

[akka]

The place where the veggies of Westminster Abbey were grown until it was sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

[shaneystar2]

Not sure about this ..but think it was called the Convent Garden which is now known as Covent Carden.Something to do with the Benedictine monks who had an abbey where Westminster Abbey now stands.If you Google for the history of Westminster Abbey there should be something about it.

[patsyann]

google says Hampstead was the Monks vegetable garden.

[shaneystar2]

"Convent Garden" (later corrupted to Covent Garden as we know it today) was the name given, during the reign of King John (1199 - 1256), to a 40 acre (160,000 m�) patch in the county of Middlesex, bordered west and east by what is now St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane, and north and south by Floral Street and a line drawn from Chandos Place, along Maiden Lane and Exeter Street to the Aldwych.

In this quadrangle the Abbey or Convent of St. Peter, Westminster, maintained a large kitchen garden throughout the Middle Ages to provide its daily food. Over the next three centuries, the monks' old "convent garden" became a major source of fruit and vegetables in London and was managed by a succession of leaseholders by grant from the Abbot of Westminster.

This type of lease eventually led to property disputes throughout the kingdom, which King Henry VIII solved in 1540 by the stroke of a pen when he dissolved the monasteries and appropriated their land.
From wikipedia.