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St Martin's Courtyard is a shopping and dining destination in London, United Kingdom located in the Covent Garden area, near Leicester Square. St Martin's Courtyard opened in November 2010 and is home to numerous fashion, beauty and lifestyle shops, six restaurants, a spa, a yoga and pilates centre and a flower academy. St Martin's Courtyard comprises of an open-air pedestrianised courtyard with three entrances, on Long Acre, Mercer Street and Upper St Martin's Lane. The closest London Underground stations to St Martin's Courtyard are Covent Garden tube station and Leicester Square tube station. St Martin’s Courtyard is a two acre development.

History
St Martin's Courtyard is located on the site of the old town of Lundenwic which has its origins in the 5th century. During the building of St Martin’s Courtyard, ancient artefacts were discovered on the site. A team of archaelogists from the Museum of London was brought in to excavate the site. The excavations at St Martin’s Courtyard are one of the most extensive to have been undertaken within the Middle Saxon trading port of Lundenwic. The Martin’s Courtyard site was partially waterlogged which resulted in the preservation of fragile organic remains such as leather, wood and seeds which are rare from this period and provided new information about the local environment, diet and crafts. It was previously believed that the earliest Saxon dwellings were close to the banks of the River Thames, but the discovery of Early Saxon remains in the area around St Martin’s Courtyard suggest that the first Saxon settlers set up home close by. After the Saxons had abandoned Lundenwic, the site was not inhabited again until the 17th century, when it began to be developed. Remains dating from the 17th to 19th centuries were recovered from the site, including a small nursery mug depicting a giraffe and the word ‘Cameleopard’ which was an alternative name for a giraffe that survived into the 1900s.