Smart's Place in Covent Garden

Smart's Place in Covent Garden

Smart's Place is a small street in the northern part of Covent Garden, set within the closely built network of streets away from the Piazza. It is a modest and largely functional route, serving the buildings that face onto it rather than drawing the visitor traffic of the main shopping and theatre streets. The street forms part of the fine grained pattern of minor ways that run through this corner of Covent Garden, connecting one part of the area to another. Its scale is small and its character quiet, with a mix of buildings reflecting the varied fabric of the district. Smart's Place sits within reach of the busier streets around it while keeping a calmer, more local feel of its own. It is best understood as part of the practical framework of the area, one of the smaller streets that fill in the ground between the better known routes of Covent Garden.