Long Acre

[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 condition of the road and houses along it, which were the responsibility of Russell and Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth.

[4] This licence allowed the development of Covent Garden Square to the south of Long Acre.

Odhams also published The Daily Herald, Woman's Own, Debrett's and Sporting Life (founded 1859).

Emma Martin, author, socialist and free thinker worked as a midwife from No.100 where her daughters ran a surgical bandage shop.

It is said that the poet Richard Lovelace spent his final years in Long Acre, in great poverty.

As a young man, Thomas Paine worked as a corset maker in Long Acre.