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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an area of south-west London, England, bounded to the south by the River Thames

River Thames

The Thames is a major river flowing through southern England. While best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows through several other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading, Berkshire and Windsor, Berkshire....
, where its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge

Chelsea Bridge

Chelsea Bridge is a self-anchored suspension bridge for road and foot traffic running north-south over the River Thames in London, between Grosvenor Bridge and the Albert Bridge, London....
along the Chelsea Embankment

Chelsea Embankment

Chelsea Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and walkway along the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England.The western end of Chelsea Embankment, including a stretch of Cheyne Walk, is in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; the eastern end, including Grosvenor Road and Millbank, is in the City of We...
, Cheyne Walk

Cheyne Walk

Cheyne Walk is a historic street in Chelsea, London. Most of the houses were built in the early eighteenth century. Before the construction in the nineteenth century of the busy Thames Embankment, which now runs in front of it, the houses fronted the River Thames....
, Lots Road

Lots Road Power Station

Lots Road Power Station is a disused Fossil fuel power plant on the River Thames at Lots Road in Chelsea, London, London which supplied electricity to the London Underground system....
and Chelsea Harbour

Chelsea Harbour

Chelsea Harbour is a mixed-use development in Central London, situated on the north bank of the River Thames, within the eastern boundary of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and on the southwestern boundary of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
. Its eastern boundary was once defined by the River Westbourne

River Westbourne

The River Westbourne is a river in London, England. It flows from Hampstead down through Hyde Park, London to Sloane Square and into the River Thames at Chelsea, London....
, which is now in a pipe above Sloane Square tube station

Sloane Square tube station

Sloane Square is a London Underground station in Sloane Square, Chelsea, London. It is served by the District Line and Circle line Lines and is between South Kensington tube station and Victoria Station ....
. The modern eastern boundary is Chelsea Bridge Road

Chelsea Bridge Road

Chelsea Bridge Road is the modern eastern boundary of Chelsea, London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
and the lower half of Sloane Street

Sloane Street

Sloane Street is a street in London which runs north to south, from Knightsbridge to Sloane Square, crossing Pont Street about half way along. It forms the boundary between the exclusive districts of Knightsbridge, Belgravia, and Chelsea, London....
, including Sloane Square

Sloane Square

Sloane Square is a small hard-landscaped square on the boundaries of the fashionable London districts of Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Chelsea, London, located southwest of Charing Cross....
. To the north and northwest, the area fades into Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge

South Kensington

South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
, but it is safe to say that the area north of King's Road

Kings Road

Kings Road, known popularly as The Kings Road or The KR, is a major, well-known street in west London, England.It runs for just under 2 miles through Chelsea, London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, from Sloane Square in the east and through the Moore Park Estate on the border of Chelsea and Fulham opposite Sta...
as far northwest as Fulham Road

Fulham Road

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is a London borough in the west side of central London.It is an urban area and was named in the United Kingdom Census 2001 as the most densely populated local authority in the United Kingdom, with a population of 158,919 at 13,244 per square kilometre ....
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History

The word Chelsea means "landing place [on the river] for chalk or limestone" (Old English). Anglo-Saxon

Old English language

Old English is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century....
Cealc-h3ð = "chalk

Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. It forms under relatively deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....
wharf

Wharf

A wharf is a landing place or pier where ships may tie up and load or unload.A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pile. They often serve as interim storage areas with warehouses, since the typical objective is to unload and reload vessels as quickly as possible....
". The first record of the Manor of Chelsea precedes the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

The Domesday Book is the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William I of England, or William the Conqueror....
and records the fact that Thurstan, governor of the King's Palace during the reign of Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor

Saint Edward the Confessor , son of Ethelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was the penultimate Anglo-Saxons List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England and the last of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 until his death....
, gave the land to the Abbot and Convent of Westminster. Abbot Gervace subsequently assigned the manor to his mother, and it passed into private ownership. Modern-day Chelsea was the site of the Synod of Chelsea

Synod of Chelsea

The Synod of Chelsea was held in 787 at Cealchythe, in Kent, generally identified with modern Chelsea, London.It was called by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, and was attended by papal legates, the only occasion in Anglo-Saxon times when papal representatives came to an English church council....
in 787 AD. In the ancient records, it is written as Chelchith, which Norden, a writer of considerable note, derives from the Saxon words ceale or cele, meaning "coldness", and hyd, meaning "port" or "haven".

King Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lordship of Ireland and claimant to the Early Modern France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII of England....
acquired the manor of Chelsea from Lord Sandys in 1536; Chelsea Manor Street is still extant. Two of his wives

Wives of Henry VIII

The six wives of Henry VIII of England were, in order: Catherine of Aragon , Anne Boleyn , Jane Seymour , Anne of Cleves , Catherine Howard , and Catherine Parr....
, Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr , also known as Catherine or Catharine Parr, was the last of Wives of Henry VIII of Henry VIII of England. She was Queen Consort of England during 1543?1547, then Dowager Queen of England....
and Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves was a German noblewoman and the fourth Wives of Henry VIII of Henry VIII of England and as such she was List of English consorts from 6 January 1540 to 9 July 1540....
, lived in the Manor House; Princess Elizabeth – the future Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
– was a resident; and Thomas More lived more or less next door at Beaufort House. James I

James I of England

James VI and I was List of monarchs of Scotland as James VI, and List of English monarchs and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Kingdom of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary I of Scotland....
established a theological college on the site of Chelsea Royal Hospital, which was later founded by Charles II

Charles II of England

Charles II was the Monarchy of Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland.His father Charles I of England Regicide#The regicide of Charles I of England at Palace of Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War....
.

By 1694, Chelsea – always a popular location for the wealthy, and once described as "a village of palaces" – had a population of 3,000. Even so, Chelsea remained rural and served London to the east as a market garden

Market garden

Market garden may refer to:* Market gardening* Operation Market Garden...
, a trade that continued until the 19th-century development boom which caused the district to finally absorb into the metropolis. The street crossing what was known as "Little Chelsea", Park Walk, linked Fulham Road to King's Road and continued to the Thames and Local Ferry down Lover's Lane, renamed "Milmans Street" in the 18th century.

King's Road was named for Charles II, recalling the King's private road from St James's Palace to Fulham

Fulham

George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV was the king of Kingdom of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the death of his father, George III of the United Kingdom, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later....
. One of the more important buildings in King's Road is Chelsea Town Hall, a fine neo-classical building containing important fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
s. Part of the building contains the Chelsea Public Library. Almost opposite is the former Odeon Cinema, now Habitat

Habitat

The term habitat has a number of meanings:* Habitat , a place where a species lives and grows** Human habitat, a place where humans live, work or play...
, with its iconic façade which carries high upon it a large sculptured medallion of the now almost-forgotten William Friese-Greene

William Friese-Greene

William Friese-Greene was a portrait photographer and prolific inventor. He is principally known as a pioneer in the field of film and is credited by some as the inventor of cinematography....
, who claimed to have invented celluloid film and cameras before any subsequent patents.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclop?dia Britannica is a general English language encyclopedia published by Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company....
, "the better residential portion of Chelsea is the eastern, near Sloane Street and along the river; the western, extending north to Fulham Road

Fulham Road

Fulham Road is a street in London, England, that runs from the A219 road in right in the centre of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, through Chelsea, London to Brompton Road Knightsbridge and the A4 road in Brompton, Kensington, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
, is mainly a poor quarter". This is no longer the case, although Housing trusts and Council property do remain. The areas to the west also attract very high prices.

The memorials in the churchyard of Chelsea Old Church (All Saints), near the river, illustrate much of the history of Chelsea. These include Lord and Lady Dacre (1594–1595); Sir John Lawrence (1638); Lady Jane Cheyne (1698); Francis Thomas

Francis Thomas

Francis Thomas was a Maryland politician who served as Governor of Maryland from 1842-1844. He also served as a United States House of Representatives from Maryland, representing at separate times the United States House of Representatives, Maryland District 4, United States House of Representatives, Maryland District 5, United States Hou...
, "director of the china porcelain manufactory"; Sir Hans Sloane

Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, Royal Society was an Ulster-Scots physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the British nation which became the foundation of the British Museum....
(1753); Thomas Shadwell

Thomas Shadwell

Thomas Shadwell was an England poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689....
, Poet Laureate

Poet Laureate

A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events....
(1692). Sir Thomas More

Thomas More

Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his lifetime gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar, and occupied many public offices, including Lord Chancellor ....
's tomb can also be found there.

Chelsea was once famous for the manufacture of Chelsea bun

Chelsea bun

The Chelsea bun is a type of Currant bun that was first created in the eighteenth century at the Bun House in Chelsea, London, an establishment favoured by Hanoverian royalty and demolished in 1839....
s (made from a long strip of sweet dough

Dough

This article is about a cooking ingredient. For the British sitcom episode, see Dough .Dough is a paste made out of any cereals or legume crops by mixing the flour with a small amount of water....
tightly coiled, with currant

Zante currant

The Zante currant or currant is a variety of small, sweet, seedless grape named after Corinth and the Ionian Islands island of Zakynthos and not to be confused with the ribes berry "currants" which are in a different family altogether....
s trapped between the layers, and topped with sugar). The area is still famous for its "Chelsea China" ware, though the works, the Chelsea porcelain factory

Chelsea porcelain factory

[Image:Chelseaporc.jpg|thumb|Dogs, about 1749, Chelsea Porcelain factory The Chelsea porcelain manufactory is the first important porcelain manufactory in England; its earliest soft-paste porcelain, aimed at the aristocratic market—cream jugs in the form of two seated goats—are dated 1745....
– thought to be the first workshop to make porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and ....
in England – were sold in 1769, and moved to Derby

Derby

Derby is a city status in the United Kingdom in the East Midlands region of England in the United Kingdom. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent, Derbyshire and is located in the south of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire....
. Examples of the original Chelsea ware fetch high values.

The best-known building is Chelsea Royal Hospital for invalid soldiers, set up by Charles II (supposedly on the suggestion of Nell Gwynne), opened in 1694. The beautifully proportioned building by Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren was a 17th century England designer, astronomer, geometer, and one of the greatest English architects in history. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note....
stands in extensive grounds, where the Chelsea Flower show is held annually. There was also until recently the Duke of York's Barracks

Duke of York's Barracks

The Duke of York's Headquarters is a building in Chelsea, London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, England. It was completed in 1801 to the designs of John Sanders , who also designed the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst....
off King's Road; now the Duke of York's Square, it was redeveloped into shops and cafes and is the site of the weekly farmers' market. The Saatchi Gallery opened in the main building in 2008. Chelsea Barracks

Chelsea Barracks

Chelsea Barracks was a British Army barracks located in the City of Westminster, London, adjacent to Chelsea, London, on Chelsea Bridge Road.It was originally built to house two battalions of troops....
, at the end of Lower Sloane Street, was also in use until recently, primarily by ceremonial troops of the Household Division

Household Division

Household Division is a term used principally in the Commonwealth of Nations to describe a country?s most elite or historically senior military units, or those military units that provide ceremonial or protective functions associated directly with the head of state....
. Situated on the Westminster side of Chelsea Bridge Road, it was bought by a property group for re-development.

Chelsea Bridge, River Thames, London, England

Chelsea's modern reputation as a centre of innovation and influence originated in a period during the 19th century, when the area became a veritable Victorian artists' colony (see Borough of artists below). It became prominent once again as one of the centres of 1960s "Swinging London

Swinging London

Swinging London is a catchall term applied to dynamic cultural trends in the United Kingdom, centred in London, in the second half of the 1960s....
".

The borough of artists

Chelsea once had a reputation as London's bohemian

Bohemianism

The term bohemian, of French origin, was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors in major European cities....
quarter, the haunt of artists, radicals, painters and poets. Little of this seems to survive now – the comfortable squares off King's Road are homes to the English military establishment, investment bankers and film stars, and more recently the pop singer Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
. The Chelsea Arts Club

Chelsea Arts Club

The Chelsea Arts Club was established on March 21 1891 , as a rival to the older The Arts Club in Mayfair, on the instigation of the artist James McNeill Whistler, who had been a member of the older club....
continues in situ; however, the Chelsea College of Art and Design, originally founded in 1895 as the Chelsea School of Art, decamped from Manresa Road to Pimlico in 2005.

Its reputation stems from a period in the 19th century when it became a sort of Victorian artists' colony: painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, Painting and translator....
, J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Royal Academy was an English Romanticism Landscape art, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism....
, James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler

'James Abbott McNeill Whistler' was an United States-born, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake"....
, William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt Order of Merit was a British painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood....
, and John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent was the most successful portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings....
all lived and worked here. There was a particularly large concentration of artists in the area around Cheyne Walk

Cheyne Walk

George Meredith

| name= George Meredith| image = George Meredith.1893.jpg| imagesize = 200px| caption = George Meredith in 1893 by George Frederic Watts....
, Algernon Swinburne, Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt was an England critic, essayist, poet and writer....
, and Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was a Scotland satire writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics the "dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator....
. Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satire, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dublin....
lived in Church Lane, Richard Steele

Richard Steele

Sir Richard Steele was an Ireland writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator ....
and Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett

Tobias George Smollett was a Scotland poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens....
in Monmouth House. Carlyle lived for 47 years at No. 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row. After his death, the house was bought and turned into a shrine and literary museum by the Carlyle Memorial Trust, a group formed by Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen

Sir Leslie Stephen, Order of the Bath was an England author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell....
, father of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
. Virginia Woolf set her 1919 novel Night and Day in Chelsea, where Mrs. Hilbery has a Cheyne Walk home.

In a curious book, Bohemia in London by Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome

Arthur Mitchell Ransome was an England author and journalist.He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books....
which is a partly fictional account of his early years in London, published in 1907 when he was 23, there are some fascinating, rather over-romanticised accounts of bohemian goings-on in the quarter. The American artist Pamela Colman Smith

Pamela Colman Smith

Pamela Colman Smith was an artist, illustrator, and writer. She is best known for designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of divinatory tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite....
, the designer of A. E. Waite's Tarot

Tarot

The tarot is typically a set of seventy-eight cards, composed of twenty-one Trump , one The Fool , and four Suit of fourteen cards each?ten pip and four Face card cards ....
card pack and a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a Magic order of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, practicing a form of theurgy and spiritual development....
, features as "Gypsy" in the chapter "A Chelsea Evening".

A central part of Chelsea's artistic and cultural life was Chelsea Public Library, originally situated in Manresa Road. Its longest serving member of staff was Armitage Denton, who joined in 1896 at the age of 22, and he remained there until his retirement in 1939; he was appointed Chief Librarian in 1929. The library now occupies part of the Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road.

The Chelsea Collection

Chelsea Collection

The Chelsea Collection is a priceless anthology of prints and pictures of old Chelsea. Begun in 1887, it contains works by artists as notable and diverse as Rossetti and Whistler....
is a priceless anthology of prints and pictures of old Chelsea. Begun in 1887, it contains works by artists as notable and diverse as Rossetti and Whistler. During his time at the Library, Armitage Denton built the Collection assiduously, so that by the time of his death in July 1949 it numbered more than 1,000 items. At the end of the 20th century, the Collection totalled more than 5,000 works, and it continues to grow.

The Chelsea Society

Chelsea Society

The Chelsea Society was founded in 1927, by the Chelsea, London author Reginald Blunt, with the aim of protecting the historical fabric of Chelsea and of influencing future environmental changes....
, formed in 1927, remains an active amenity society concerned with preserving and advising on changes in Chelsea's built environment. Chelsea Village and Chelsea Harbour

Chelsea Harbour

Swinging Chelsea

Chelsea shone again, brightly but briefly, in the 1960s Swinging London

Swinging London

Swinging London is a catchall term applied to dynamic cultural trends in the United Kingdom, centred in London, in the second half of the 1960s....
period and the early 1970s. The Swinging Sixties was defined on King's Road, which runs the length of the area, and both the Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
and Rolling Stones members Brian Jones

Brian Jones

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an England guitarist and founding member of the England rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, fashionable Mod image, Recreational drug use excesses and his 27 Club....
, Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
, and Keith Richards

Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
lived here at one time. In the 1970s, the World's End

World's End, Kings Road

The World's End is a district of Chelsea, London, lying at the western end of the Kings Road. It took its name from a public house. It was an unfashionable part of Chelsea known for drug dealing and gang crime, earning it the nickname "crack town" until the boutique Granny Takes a Trip became the centre of the counter-culture world of the 196...
of King's Road was home to Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood

Dame Vivienne Westwood, Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry is a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern Punk fashion and New Wave music fashions into the mainstream....
's boutique "SEX

SEX (boutique)

SEX was a boutique run by Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood at 430 King's Road, London.In October 1971 Malcolm McLaren and his art-school friend Patrick Casey opened a small stall selling original rock & roll vinyl, magazines, clothing and memorabilia from the 1950s in the back room of a shop called Paradise Garage at 430 King's Road in L...
", and saw the birth of the British punk

Punk subculture

The punk subculture is based around punk rock. It emerged from the larger rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan....
movement. Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
even sang "I don't want to go to Chelsea". Then Youth culture decamped: the Goths

Goth subculture

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre....
moved to the newly fashionable quarter of Camden Town

Camden Town

Camden Town is the name of an area within the London Borough of Camden, situated in London, England. It is occasionally shortened to Camden....
, while the hippies left for Notting Hill

Notting Hill

Notting Hill is an area in West London, England close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park, London, and lying within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
.

In 2008, commentators have noted a resurgence taking place in the area with the interest taken by Princes William and Harry and numerous "new Sloane" youth in Chelsea night-life.

King's Road remains the major artery through Chelsea and a very busy road, and despite its continuing reputation as a shopping mecca, it is now home to many of the same shops found on any other UK high street

High Street

High Street, or the High Street, is a metonym for the generic street name of the primary business street of towns or city in the United Kingdom....
s, such as Gap

Gap (clothing retailer)

The Gap, Inc. is an United States clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F....
, Virgin Megastore

Virgin Megastore

Virgin Megastores is an international chain of record shops, founded by Sir Richard Branson on London's Oxford Street in January or February 1971 ....
, and McDonald's

McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants, serving nearly 58 million customers daily. McDonald's primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts....
. Sloane Street

Sloane Street

Knightsbridge

Bond Street

Bond Street is a major shopping street in London which runs through Mayfair from Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. It is one of the principal streets in the West End shopping district and is more upmarket than nearby Regent Street and Oxford Street....
as London's premier shopping destinations, housing a variety of high-end fashion or jewellery like Cartier

Cartier SA

Cartiers SA is a France jeweller and watch manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Compagnie Financi?re Richemont SA. The corporation carries the name of the Cartier family of jewelers whose control ended in 1964 and who were known for numerous pieces including the famous "Bestiary" , the diamond necklace created for Yadavindra Singh the Maharaj...
, Gucci

Gucci

The House of Gucci, better known simply as Gucci, is an iconic Italy fashion design and leather goods label. It was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence in 1921....
and Graff

Graff

Graff is the surname of:* Anton Graff, a German painter* Gerald Graff, an American professor* Hyrum Graff, a character in Orson Scott Card's Ender books...
.

Notable residents

Carlo Cudicini
Carlo Cudicini

Carlo Cudicini is an Italy Goalkeeper . He is the son of former A.C. Milan goalkeeper Fabio Cudicini and grandson of Ponziana Trieste defender Guglielmo Cudicini ....
(Tottenham Hotspur footballer)
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada Rock music singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an ?unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks" and in 1992, Adams won the Grammy Awards of 1992, for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" fo...
Lily Allen
Lily Allen

Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an England singer-songwriter. Best known for her songs "Smile ", "LDN ", "Littlest Things", "Alfie ", "Oh My God ", "The Fear " and her Mockney style, Allen is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen....
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban King's Counsel , son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author....
Richard Ballerand (Redburn Street)
Jamie Bell
Jamie Bell

Jamie Bell is a BAFTA-winning English actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the title character in the film Billy Elliot , for which he won the 2001 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role....
Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren? Belloc was a France-born writer and historian who became a naturalised United Kingdom subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century....
(Cheyne Walk)
John Betjeman
John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman, Order of the British Empire was an English poet, writer and Broadcasting who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack"....
(Radnor Walk)
Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde

Sir Dirk Bogarde was an England actor and novelist....
(Lower Sloane Street)
William Boyd
William Boyd

William Boyd may refer to:*William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman*William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman...
(Redburn Street)
Marc Isambard Brunel
Marc Isambard Brunel

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, Royal Society was a France-born engineer who settled in the United Kingdom. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel....
and Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fellow of the Royal Society , was a United Kingdom engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first with a propeller, and numerous important bridges and tunnels....
(civil engineers); 98 Cheyne Walk)
Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan
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Phyllis Calvert
Phyllis Calvert

Phyllis Calvert was an England film, stage and television actor.Born Phyllis Hannah Bickle in Chelsea, London, she had her first film role at the age of 12, in The Arcadians ....
(actress) was born in Chelsea
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle

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the "Sage of Chelsea" (24 Cheyne Row – now National Trust
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House)
Steve Clark
Steve Clark

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(late Def Leppard
Def Leppard

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guitarist)
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

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Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp

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rented property from Thomas Golsong on King's Road for the duration of filming Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland

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.
George Devine
George Devine

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& Jocelyn Herbert (Rossetti Studios, Flood St)
Bernie Ecclestone
Bernie Ecclestone

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(Chelsea Square)
George Eliot
George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an England novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era....
(spent the last 3 weeks of her life at 4 Cheyne Walk)
Judy Garland
Judy Garland

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(Spent the last few months of her life there with her fifth husband until death on June 22, 1969)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a British Conservative Party politician....
(Swan Walk)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell

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(93 Cheyne Walk)
Bob Geldof
Bob Geldof

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(Redburn Street)
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George

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(10 Cheyne Walk)
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant is a British people actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary C?sar. His movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide....
(Chelsea Square)
Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence

Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian singer-songwriter, most famous for his work with rock band INXS....
(Redburn Street)
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
and all the Rolling Stones (Edith Grove, Cheyne Walk)
Henry James
Henry James

Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
(21 Cheyne Walk)
Roger Keyes
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler Order of the British Empire is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film score composer.Knopfler is best-known as the lead guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977 with his brother David Knopfler....
Bob Marley
Bob Marley

Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley Jamaican Order of Merit was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers ....
composed his hit "I Shot the Sheriff" in a one-bedroom flat off Cheyne Walk in the mid-1970s.
Kate Middleton
Kate Middleton

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(girlfriend of Prince William
Prince William of Wales

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) (Old Church Street)
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

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Thomas More
Thomas More

Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his lifetime gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar, and occupied many public offices, including Lord Chancellor ....
Juliano Belletti
Juliano Belletti

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(Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea F.C.

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footballer)
Ricardo Carvalho
Ricardo Carvalho

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(Chelsea F.C.
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footballer)
Hasnat Khan
Hasnat Khan

Hasnat Ahmad Khan, Royal College of Surgeons, has been a cardiology at Harefield Hospital in London. He is reported to be planning to return to Pakistan to accept a post at a hospital in Lahore....
, Pakistani heart surgeon and ex-lover of Princess Diana.
John Camden Neild
John Camden Neild

John Camden Neild was an English miser.Neild, son of James Neild, prison reformer, was probably born in St. James's Street, London, about 1780....
(5 Cheyne Walk)
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and double Screen Actors Guild Award- winning United States actress....
Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst

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(Cheyne Walk)
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (artist & sculptor)
Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes is the keyboardist for Duran Duran. Rhodes and singer Simon Le Bon are the only members to have been with the band throughout its 29-year professional career ....
of Duran Duran
Duran Duran

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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(16 Cheyne Walk)
Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Scarfe

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and Jane Asher
Jane Asher

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John Shaw Junior, architect of the 19th century
Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2009, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system....
of ubuntu linux
Osbert Sitwell
Osbert Sitwell

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet, was an England writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art and literature....
(Carlyle Square)
George Smiley
George Smiley

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(9 Bywater Street)
Chris Squire
Chris Squire

Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire , is an England musician best known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes ....
Philip Wilson Steer
Philip Wilson Steer

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(109 Cheyne Walk)
Algernon Swinburne (16 Cheyne Walk)
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990....
(Flood Street)
J. M. W. Turner
J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Royal Academy was an English Romanticism Landscape art, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism....
(died at 119 Cheyne Walk on 19 December 1851)
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler

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(21, 96 & 101 Cheyne Walk)
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
(today 34 Tite Street
Tite Street

Tite Street is a street in Chelsea, London, England, just north of the River Thames. It was created in 1877, giving access to the Chelsea Embankment....
, 16 Tite Street in Wilde's lifetime)
Paula Yates
Paula Yates

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(Redburn Street)
Il Divo
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( Urs, Sebastien, Carlos and David )
Mark Twain
Mark Twain

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(23 Tedworth Square)
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker

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(author of Dracula)
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
(Author of Lord of the Rings)
Christian the Lion
Christian the lion

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Mark Webster
Mark Webster

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Count Nicolas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravian Church, Lindsey House
Lindsey House

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Property

Chelsea consists of two main postcodes (SW3 and SW10) but also includes small sections of SW1. All of Chelsea is, by definition, in the London borough of "The Royal Borough Kensington and Chelsea" (RBKC). On the eastern side RBKC meets the equally fashionable and expensive borough of the City of Westminster (COW), this meets at Lower Sloane Street where the postcode is SW1W, with one side of the road being in COW and the other in RBKC. However it does give the strange result that some of RBKC is in SW1W. The Moore Park Estate in SW6 is also considered to be part of the Fulham/Chelsea border.

The vast majority of Chelsea is SW3. The far west of Chelsea is SW10 and SW5 but due to the absence of tube coverage in large parts of the Borough, most people in SW10 use Earls Court or Fulham Broadway tube stations.

The most desirable part of Chelsea is around Sloane Square

Sloane Square

Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge is a road which gives its name to an exclusive district lying to the west of Central London. The road runs along the south side of Hyde Park, London, west from Hyde Park Corner, spanning the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
tube. Around here, Chelsea meets Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge

Freeholder

A freeholder can refer to:* one who holds title to real property in Fee simple* Freeholder of county government in the State of New Jersey*A proprietor who holds a piece of land outright and has the right to lease, rent or sell as he pleases....
. Much of Chelsea is now viewed as a "Global Ultra Prime Residential Area".

Much of Chelsea (SW3) and Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge

Earl Cadogan

Earl Cadogan is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Great Britain. The Cadogan family descends from Major William Cadogan, a cavalry officer in Oliver Cromwell's army....
, through the Cadogan Estates

Cadogan Estates

Cadogan Estates Ltd is a property company owned by the Earls Cadogan, one of the richest families in the United Kingdom. It is the main landlord in the central London districts of Chelsea, London and Knightsbridge, and is now the second largest of the surviving aristocratic freehold estates in central London, after the Duke of Westminster's G...
. Most of the property owned is in and around Cadogan Square. This has a major influence on the markets as the Earl is the freeholder

Freeholder

A freeholder can refer to:* one who holds title to real property in Fee simple* Freeholder of county government in the State of New Jersey*A proprietor who holds a piece of land outright and has the right to lease, rent or sell as he pleases....
and generally has no desire to sell; although changes in legislation now mean the freeholder

Freeholder

A freeholder can refer to:* one who holds title to real property in Fee simple* Freeholder of county government in the State of New Jersey*A proprietor who holds a piece of land outright and has the right to lease, rent or sell as he pleases....
is obliged to sell lease extensions to a leaseholder at prices which are determined by the Leasehold valuation tribunal

Leasehold valuation tribunal

A Leasehold Valuation Tribunal is a statutory tribunal in England which determine various types of landlord and tenant dispute involving residential property in the private sector....
. Lord Cadogan is generally regarded as an effective and successful property developer/landlord being responsible, together with his management team, for bringing all of the fashion labels to Sloane Street

Sloane Street

Kings Road

Peter Jones (department store)

Peter Jones is one of the largest and best known department stores in central London London, England. It is a store of the John Lewis Partnership and located on Sloane Square, at the junction of King's Road and Sloane Street, in the fashionable Chelsea, London district, close to the elite districts of Belgravia and Knightsbridge....
and on Sloane Street

Sloane Street

Fulham Road

Kings Road

Sloane Street

Peter Jones (department store)

Harvey Nichols

Harvey Nichols , founded in 1813, is an upmarket department store chain. Its original store is in London, Founded in 1813 as a linen shop, it offers many of the world's most prestigious brands in womenswear, menswear, fashion accessories, beauty, food, and home....
, and 12 hotels including the Cadogan Hotel

Cadogan Hotel

The Cadogan Hotel is one of London's most prestigious luxury hotels and restaurants. Built in 1887, it is situated on Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London SW1, England....
. The Estate maintains many of the garden squares, (to which local residents can gain access by subscribing for an annual fee – and optionally the tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
courts where applicable). The area is home to several open spaces including Albert Bridge Gardens, Battersea Bridge Gardens, Chelsea Embankment Gardens, Royal Hospital Chelsea

Royal Hospital Chelsea

The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home for United Kingdom soldiers who are unfit for further duty due to injury or old age, located in the Chelsea, London region of central London....
: the grounds of which are used by the annual Chelsea Flower Show

Chelsea Flower Show

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, officially the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held each year on five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London, England, London, England....
and Chelsea Physic Garden

Chelsea Physic Garden

The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries? Garden in London, England in 1673. It is the second oldest botanical garden in United Kingdom, after the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, which was founded in 1621....
.

Nearest places

Belgravia
Belgravia

Belgravia is a district of central London in the City of Westminster, situated to the south-west of Buckingham Palace. Belgravia is approximately bounded by Knightsbridge to the north , Grosvenor Place and Buckingham Palace Road to the east, Pimlico Road to the south, and Sloane Street to the west....
Brompton
Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge is a road which gives its name to an exclusive district lying to the west of Central London. The road runs along the south side of Hyde Park, London, west from Hyde Park Corner, spanning the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
Pimlico
Pimlico

Pimlico is a small area of central London in the City of Westminster that is primarily residential and well known for its collection of small hotels and impressive Regency architecture....
South Kensington
South Kensington

South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
West Brompton
West Brompton

West Brompton is an area of West London, within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
Fulham
Fulham

Fulham is an area of south-west London in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, located south west of Charing Cross. It is situated in between Putney and Chelsea, London....
Fulham Broadway
Battersea
Battersea

Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is an inner-city district located 2.9 miles south west of Charing Cross. It has a population of 75,651 people ....
(south of the river)

Transport

Sloane Square tube station
Sloane Square tube station

Sloane Square is a London Underground station in Sloane Square, Chelsea, London. It is served by the District Line and Circle line Lines and is between South Kensington tube station and Victoria Station ....
South Kensington tube station
South Kensington tube station

South Kensington is a London Underground station in Kensington, west London. It is served by the District Line, Circle line and Piccadilly Line lines....
Earls Court tube station
Fulham Broadway tube station
Fulham Broadway tube station

Fulham Broadway is a London Underground station on the Wimbledon station branch of the District Line. It is between West Brompton station and Parsons Green tube station stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2....
Imperial Wharf railway station
Imperial Wharf railway station

Imperial Wharf is an under-construction railway station on the border of Chelsea, London and Fulham in west London on the West London Line. The station will be between West Brompton station and Clapham Junction stations and services will be provided by London Overground....
(proposed)
Chelsea tube station
Chelsea tube station

Chelsea tube station is a proposed station on the Chelsea-Hackney line also known as Crossrail 2. Alternative names for it are Kings Road , Chelsea Kings Road or simply Kings Road....
(proposed)

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