The Hummums, Covent Garden
The following account was published in ‘The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain’ by John Ingram (1897).
Specific Location: Camden Town
The Nun of Covent Garden
Covent Garden (or Convent Garden) was a 40 acre area owned by the Abbey of Westminster that was used as a market garden in the Middle Ages. It was managed through the issuing of leases by the Abbot of Westminster until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VII between 1536 and 1541, when it was taken by the state and eventually passed into the private ownership of the Earl of Bedford.
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