The London School of Economics is near the boundary between Covent Garden and Temple.
 The square was originally laid out when the 4th Earl of Bedford, Francis Russell, commissioned Inigo Jones to design and build a church and three terraces of fine houses around the site of a former walled garden belonging to Westminster Abbey
 Designed and laid out in 1630, it was the first modern square in Londonoriginally a flat, open space or piazza with low railings

