Cheyne Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW10 postal area.
Bury Walk, SW3 Bury Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Bute Street, SW7 Bute Street is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Cabul Road, SW11 Cabul Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Cale Street, SW3 Cale Street is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Cheyne Row, SW3 Cheyne Row is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Cheyne Walk, SW3 Cheyne Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Cotton Row, SW11 Cotton Row is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Cranley Mews, SW7 Cranley Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Edith Grove, SW10 Edith Grove is one of the streets of London in the SW10 postal area. Edna Street, SW11 Edna Street is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Fairchild Close, SW11 Fairchild Close is a housing development between Wye Street and York Road on the former sites of Lithgow Street and Tibet Street. Fulham Road, SW3 Fulham Road is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Glebe Place, SW3 Glebe Place is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Gwynne Road, SW11 Gwynne Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Hester Road, SW11 Hester Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Home Road, SW11 Home Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Kings Road, SW10 Kings Road is one of the streets of London in the SW10 postal area. Kings Road, SW3 Kings Road is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Lamont Road, SW10 Lamont Road is one of the streets of London in the SW10 postal area. Lewis Estate, SW3 Lewis Estate is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Lots Road, SW10 Lots Road, older than the surrounding streets, was once Pooles Lane which was a track leading to Chelsea Farm. Manresa Road, SW3 Manresa Road is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Manson Mews, SW7 Manson Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Manson Place, SW7 Manson Place is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Melton Court, SW7 Melton Court is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Onslow Square, SW7 Onslow Square was started by Charles James Freake, to designs by architect George Basevi, with the square completed by 1865. Park Walk, SW10 Park Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW10 postal area. Paultons Square, SW3 Paultons Square, a garden square, was built in 1836–40 on the site of a former market garden. Pelham Court, SW3 Pelham Court is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Pelham Crescent, SW7 Henry Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester was a former trustee of the Smith’s Charity Estate, upon which the road was built. Pelham Place, SW7 Pelham Place is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Pond Place, SW3 Pond Place is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Priory Walk, SW10 Priory Walk and Milborne Grove both have development on one side of the road only and together they book-end Harley Gardens. Reece Mews, SW7 Reece Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Roland Way, SW7 Roland Way is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Rose Square, SW3 Rose Square is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Stanhope Gardens, SW7 Stanhope Gardens was built in the 1860s in developments following the Great Exhibition of 1851. Sumner Place, SW7 Sumner Place is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. Surrey Lane, SW11 Surrey Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Sydney Close, SW3 Sydney Close is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Sydney Place, SW7 Sydney Place is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. The Arcade, SW7 The Arcade is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area. The Vale, SW3 The Vale is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Thurloe Street, SW7 Thurloe Street is named for John Thurloe, said to have been given this land by Oliver Cromwell for services during the Commonwealth. Wye Street, SW11 Wye Street is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. York Road, SW11 York Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area.
Chelsea is an affluent area, bounded to the south by the River Thames.Its eastern boundary was once defined by the River Westbourne, which is now in a pipe above Sloane Square tube station. The modern eastern boundary is Chelsea Bridge Road and the lower half of Sloane Street, including Sloane Square, along with parts of Belgravia. To the north and northwest, the area fades into Knightsbridge and South Kensington, but it is safe to say that the area north of
King’s Road as far northwest as
Fulham Road is part of Chelsea.
The word Chelsea originates from the Old English term for
chalk and
landing place on the river. The first record of the Manor of Chelsea precedes the Domesday Book and records the fact that Thurstan, governor of the King’s Palace during the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042–1066), 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. The modern-day Chelsea hosted the Synod of Chelsea in 787 AD.
Chelsea once had a reputation for the manufacture of Chelsea buns (made from a long strip of sweet dough tightly coiled, with currants trapped between the layers, and topped with sugar).
King Henry VIII acquired the manor of Chelsea from Lord Sandys in 1536; Chelsea Manor Street is still extant. Two of King Henry’s wives, Catherine Parr and Anne of Cleves, lived in the Manor House; Princess Elizabeth – the future Queen Elizabeth I – resided there; and Thomas More lived more or less next door at Beaufort House. In 1609 James I established a theological college on the site of the future Chelsea Royal Hospital, which Charles II founded in 1682.
By 1694, Chelsea – always a popular location for the wealthy, and once described as ’a village of palaces’ – had a population of 3000. Even so, Chelsea remained rural and served London to the east as a market garden, a trade that continued until the 19th-century development boom which caused the final absorption of the district into the metropolis.
Chelsea shone, brightly but briefly, in the 1960s Swinging London period and the early 1970s. The Swinging Sixties was defined on
King’s Road, which runs the length of the area. The Western end of Chelsea featured boutiques Granny Takes a Trip and The Sweet Shop, the latter of which sold medieval silk velvet caftans, tabards and floor cushions, with many of the cultural cognoscenti of the time being customers, including Keith Richards, Twiggy and many others.
The exclusivity of Chelsea as a result of its high property prices has historically resulted in the term Sloane Ranger to be used to describe its residents. From 2011, Channel 4 broadcast a reality television show called
Made in Chelsea, documenting the ’glitzy’ lives of several young people living in Chelsea. Moreover, Chelsea is home to one of the largest communities of Americans living outside of the United States, with 6.53% of Chelsea-residents being born in the United States.
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