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Long Acre
London street
For other uses, see Longacre (disambiguation).
Long Acre is a street in the City of Westminster in central London. It runs from St Martin's Lane, at its western end, to Drury Lane in the east.
The street was completed in the early 17th century and was once known for its coach-makers, and later for its car dealers.
History
After the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, Henry VIII confiscated the land belonging to Westminster Abbey, including the convent garden of Covent Garden and land to the north originally called the Elms and later Seven Acres.[1] In 1552, his son, Edward VI, granted it to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford.[2] The Russell family, who in 1694 were advanced in their peerage from Earl to Duke of Bedford, held the land from 1552 to 1918.[3]
At the time of Charles I it was renamed Long Acre after the length of the first pathway constructed across the land.[1] Charles took offence at the c
