{"id":466,"date":"2020-09-09T16:59:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chilloutlondon.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:37:13","slug":"neals-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/09\/09\/neals-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Neal’s Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hidden London: <\/span>Episode 8<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Neal’s Yard is named after a 17th century developer, Thomas Neale. It is actually a small alley way that passes through a courtyard between Shorts Gardens and Monmouth Street in Covent Garden, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years Neal’s Yard fell into disrepair and it wasn’t until 1976 when an entrepreneur called Nicholas Saunders started Whole Food Warehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicholas Saunders bought a warehouse used by the nearby Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market a few years earlier for a princely sum of \u00a37,000. He later expanded Neal’s Yard into the other buildings introducing Neal’s Yard Coffee House, Neal’s Yard Bakery, Neal’s Yard Dairy and the Neal’s Yard Apothecary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several other health-food stores, cafes and retailers running through Neal’s Yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neal’s Yard can be found here<\/span><\/a><\/strong> <\/span>off Shorts Gardens, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9DP. The nearest tube\/underground\/metro stations are Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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