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SLOANE ST
SLOANE Sloane
SQUARE Square
1
z STREET LOWER SLOANE BOURNE STREET
x HOLBEIN PLACE
PIM LICO RD
l WALPOLE ST TURK'S ROW 2 e Albert Bridge
CHELTENHAM TER
g k SLOANE
ASTELL ST
ST LUKE’S ST
BRITTEN ST j SMITH TERRACE COURT has retained much
SYDNEY ST
KING'S ROAD RADNOR WALK ST LEONARD'S CHELSEA BRIDGE ROAD the King’s Road are three early
Where Glebe Place meets
f h ST EBURY BRIDG E RD of its original character.
DOVEHOUSEE STREET
4
5
Dovehouse Green, which
d H O S P I T A L R O A D 3 6 RANELAGH 18th-century houses d. Cross
used to be a burial ground, to
GARDENS
enclave of cafés and craft shops.
7 Chelsea Farmers Market f, an
GLEBE PL
R O Y A L
FLOOD STREET
s The King’s Road
CHELSEA MANOR STREET
OAKLEY STREET
a C H E L S E A E M B A N K M E N T 8 Chelsea Bridge Leave the market on Sydney
Street and cross into the garden
OLD CHURCH STREET
p CHEYNE WALK r Cadogan of St Luke’s Church g, where
u y t Pier T h a m e s Charles Dickens was married
i in 1836. The walk then winds
o e
9 through quaint back streets
C A R R I A G E D R I V E N O R T H until it rejoins the King’s Road
0 h (see p200), which was very
Albert Bridge
fashionable in the 1960s. On
w B ATTERSEA Q U E E N S T O W N the left is The Pheasantry j.
PAR K Look down the side streets
on both left and right to see
Wellington Square k, then
Royal Avenue l, intended as
a triumphal way to the Royal
C A R R I A G E D R I V E E A S T
Hospital Chelsea, and Blacklands
R O A D
q Terrace z, where book-lovers
A L B E R T
will want to visit John Sandoe’s
shop. The Duke of York’s
Territorial Headquarters x
B R I D G E
C A R R I A G E D R I V E S O U T H (1803) on the right – now home
to the Saatchi Gallery – marks
the approach to Sloane Square
R O A D
c and the Royal Court Theatre
carving by (see Sloane Square p201).
Jacob Epstein.
Just beyond
The Backstreets Thomas Carlyle statue t these is the
of Chelsea medieval
Over the bridge is David Wynne’s Crosby Hall o. On Justice
sculpture of a boy and dolphin Walk p are two early Georgian
r (1975). Pass the sought-after houses – Duke’s House and
residences on Cheyne Walk and Monmouth House. Turn left to
the statues of historian Thomas pass the site of the Chelsea
Carlyle t and Sir Thomas More porcelain factory a, which
y – this area was renowned used to make highly
for gatherings of intellectuals. fashionable (and today highly
Past Chelsea Old Church u is collectable) wares in the late
Roper’s Gardens i with its 18th century. Glebe Place s c Royal Court Theatre
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