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Originally Posted by JManc
I thought Bloomsbury was an actual proper neighborhood where as something like Covent Garden was a place name for the immediate area; the indoor/ outdoor market areas..plus surrounding blocks, Tube, etc. As many times I've been there, always confused with house London is broken down.
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Well there’s the “piazza” which is a few streets around the old Covent Garden market. But I think most would consider Seven Dials (another “area”/sub-neighborhood), St Martin’s Lane, Long Acre etc to be “Covent Garden” as well.
Where the border is between Covent Garden and the Strand or Holborn, who knows, but I would consider anything in the area bounded by Charing Cross Rd (west), the Strand (south), Drury Lane (east) and Shaftesbury Ave (north) to be Covent Garden the neighbourhood.
Google Maps can be pretty useless too. On mine they slap a label “St Giles” over Seven Dials, when really that refers (if to anything) to the little triangle bounded by Shaftesbury, Charing Cross Road and New Oxford Street, around the church of the same name, that is neither Covent Garden (south of Shaftesbury), Soho (west of Charing Cross) or Bloomsbury (north of New Oxford St).
London neighbourhoods are quite fine-grained as they are in New York. But the differences can be even more starkly pronounced because of the history of big landed estates developing different parcels of land. You could never mistake the border between Mayfair and Soho for example.