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A Three-Hour Walk in Chelsea
and Battersea

This delightful circular walk ambles through the grounds of the SLOANE ST
Royal Hospital Chelsea and across the river to Battersea Park, SLOANE c
with its Victorian landscaping. It then returns to the narrow SQUARE 1 Sloane
Square
village streets of Chelsea and the stylish shops on the King’s z
Road. For more detail on sights in Chelsea, see pages 196–201. STREET LOWER SLOANE BOURNE STREET
3 Royal Hospital x HOLBEIN PLACE
Sloane Square to for fine views of the hospital ST LUKE’S ST ASTELL ST CHELTENHAM TER PIM LICO RD
Battersea Park and Grinling Gibbons’s bronze SYDNEY ST l WALPOLE ST TURK'S ROW 2
From the station 1, turn left of Charles II 6. The granite g k COURT
SLOANE
and walk down Holbein Place. obelisk 7 commem orates the BRITTEN ST j SMITH
The Renaissance painter’s 1849 battle at Chilianwalla, in DOVEHOUSEE STREET h ST TERRACE EBURY BRIDG E RD
connection with Chelsea stems what is now Pakistan, and forms f KING'S ROAD LEONARD'S
from his friendship with Sir the centre-piece of the main RADNOR WALK CHELSEA BRIDGE ROAD
4
Thomas More, who lived nearby. marquee at the Chelsea Flower ST
Pass the cluster of antique shops Show (see p60). d H O S P I T A L R O A D 3 6 5
2 as you turn on to Royal RANELAGH
GARDENS
Hospital Road. Enter the Battersea Park GLEBE PL CHELSEA MANOR STREET FLOOD STREET
grounds of the Royal When crossing the Chelsea OAKLEY STREET 7
Hospital Chelsea 3, Bridge 8 (1937), look up to R O Y A L
designed by see four gilded galleons on OLD CHURCH STREET s
Christopher Wren, top of the pillars at each end. C H E L S E A E M B A N K M E N T 8 Chelsea Bridge
and turn left into Turn into Battersea Park 9 a
Ranelagh Gardens (see p257), one of London’s p CHEYNE WALK r
4. The small liveliest, and follow the main u y t Cadogan T h a m e s
Pier
pavilion by John path along the river to enjoy o i e
Soane 5 displays the excellent views of Albert Bridge 9
a history of the Chelsea. Turn left at the C A R R I A G E D R I V E N O R T H
area as Georgian Buddhist Peace Pagoda 0 to 0
pleasure gardens enter the main part of the park.
– it was the Past the bowling greens are w B ATTERSEA Q U E E N S T O W N
most fashionable Henry Moore’s sculpture of PAR K
meeting place for Three Standing Figures q (1948)
London society. and the lake, a favoured spot C A R R I A G E D R I V E E A S T
Leave the gardens for wildfowl. (There are boats for
hire.) Just beyond the sculpture, 0 metres 500 A L B E R T R O A D
6 Charles II statue at head northwest and, after
the Royal Hospital crossing the central avenue, fork 0 yards 500 q
right and make for the wooden
gate into the rustic Old English B R I D G E
Tips for Walkers Garden w. Leave the garden Key
Starting point: Sloane Square. by the metal gate and return Walk route
Length: 6.5 km (4 miles). to Chelsea via the Victorian R O A D C A R R I A G E D R I V E S O U T H
Getting there: Sloane Square is Albert Bridge e.
the nearest Tube. There are
frequent buses 11, 19, 22 and 349
to Sloane Square and along the
King’s Road. Royal Hospital
Chelsea grounds are open
10am–6pm Mon–Sat, 2–6pm Sun.
Stopping-off points: There is
a café in Battersea Park, by the
lake. Cheyne Walk Brasserie, on
Cheyne Walk, serves upmarket
Provençal food. There are plenty
of pubs, restaurants and sandwich
shops to be found along the
King’s Road. The Chelsea Farmers
Market on Sydney Street has
several cafés.
w Old English Garden in Battersea Park

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