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CHELSEA

Formerly a riverside village, Chelsea became gardens were noted for beau tiful courtesans
fashionable in Tudor times. Henry VIII liked it and the Chelsea Arts Club has held riotous balls
so much that he built a small palace (long for nearly a century. The Chelsea of today is
vanished) here. Artists, including Turner, home to expensive boutique shops, upmarket
Whistler and Rossetti, were attracted by the restaurants and exclusive residential areas. The
river views from Cheyne Walk. The historian showy young shoppers who paraded along
Thomas Carlyle and the essayist Leigh Hunt the King’s Road from the 1960s until the
arrived in the 1830s and began a literary 1980s have more or less gone, along with
tradition continued by writers such as the poet Chelsea’s reputation for extreme behaviour,
Swinburne. Yet Chelsea has always had a raffish established by the bohemian Chelsea Set of
element, too: in the 18th century the pleasure writers and artists in the 19th century.

Sights at a Glance
Historic Streets and Buildings Churches Restaurants see pp299–301
1 King’s Road 3 Chelsea Old Church 1 Big Easy
2 Carlyle’s House Gardens 2 Bluebird
5 Cheyne Walk 3 Buona Sera Jam
8 Royal Hospital Chelsea 4 Roper’s Garden 4 Caraffini
0 Sloane Square 6 Chelsea Physic Garden 5 Gallery Mess
Museums and Galleries 6 Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
7 National Army Museum
9 Saatchi Gallery

Street Finder maps 19, 20
Sloane
Square
South Kensington
300 metres / 330 yards K I N G ' S R O A D LOWER SLOA NE ST
F U L H A M R O A D CHELSEA DOVEHOUSE ST LEONARD'S ROW TURK’S ROW
CALE
SO UTH PARADE
TERRACE
ST
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD
TERRACE
CHELTENHAM FRANKLIN'S
S Y D N E Y S T R E E T
SMIT H TER BURTON'S C H E L S E A B R I D G E R O A D
SMITH ST
COURT
SQUARE
TEDWORTH RANELAGH
SQUARE
STREET
ELM PARK
RADNOR WALK
OLD CH
MANRESA RD
SHAWFIELD ST
K I N G ' S R O A D CHELSEA A N OR S T RE E T CHRISTCHURCH STREET GARDENS
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD
MALLORD
GARDENS
CH E LS E A M
BEAUFORT
ST
TITE STREET
THE VALE
F LOOD S TREET
ST
BRAMERTON
STREET
Bridge
R i v e r T h a m e s
CHEYNE C H E L S E A E M B A N K M E N T Chelsea
ELM PARK ROAD U R CH S TREE T
WALK
PAULTONS
SQUARE
OAKLEY STREET
ST
LAWRENCE
C HEYNE WALK Albert Cadogan Pier
DANVERS ST
BEAUFORT STREET
Bridge
Battersea
Bridge 0 metres 500
0 yards 500
A rustic garden at the Chelsea Flower Show For keys to symbols see back flap
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