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The Environs of London
Chelsea (part 1 of 3) CHELSEA. Etymology. THERE have been various conjectures … have been first used about a century ago. Skinner derives Chelsea from shelves of sand and ey or ea, land situated near … Chelsey in Sussex 4." Situation, boundaries, and extent. Chelsea is pleasantly situated upon the banks of the Thames, …
The Environs of London
Chelsea (part 2 of 3) CHELSEA. Comparative state of population. Average of … increased in population to so great a degree as that of Chelsea, within the last two centuries. In the first year of … 156, that there were only seventy-five communicants in Chelsea, which was a less number than was found in any other …
The Environs of London
Chelsea (part 3 of 3) CHELSEA. Extracts from the Register. "Charles Hickman, D. D. … of humour with which his conversation abounded. He died at Chelsea in the year 1788, at the advanced age of 95, having …
Old and New London
Chelsea Cremorne Gardens CHAPTER VIII. CHELSEA ( Continued).CREMORNE GARDENS, &c. "Where smiling Chelsea spreads the cultured lands, Sacred to Flora, a …
Old and New London
Chelsea The Hospital CHAPTER VII. CHELSEA ( continued).THE HOSPITAL, &c. "Go with old Thames, view Chelsea's glorious pile, And ask the shattered hero whence …
Survey of London Monograph
… N.W. 9; b. 18 January 1907, s. of John Walter Verco, of Chelsea; educ. Tollington Park Central School, London; …
Survey of London
… who was killed in a duel with Lord Mohun, lived in Chelsea in 1714. From the same source we learn that the name … See Shrewsbury House in Survey of London, Vol. II. (Chelsea, Part I.) Chelsea and its Environs, I., pp. 259260. Ibid I., p. 261. …
Survey of London
… Row, on the right-hand side as the visitor approached Chelsea from London, and was finally destroyed in 1888. It … the publication of Mr. Randall Davies' exhaustive work on Chelsea Old Church it was supposed that this was the … was made. Bibliographical references. Thomas Faulkner, Chelsea and its Environs (2nd edition, 1829). Alfred Beaver, …
Survey of London
… 15 does not appear, in any of the early plans of Chelsea, to have possessed the double "powder" room … gate and railings are among the three best examples of Chelsea ironwork. A reference to the measured drawing (Plate … to the Mediterranean in 1718, the year before he took his Chelsea house. Made Rear-Admiral 1728, Vice-Admiral 1734, and …
Survey of London
… which has played an amusing and not unimportant part in Chelsea's history is No. 18, still called Don Saltero's after … as that adjoining the Manor House, when Sloane bought his Chelsea property. However that may be, Salter was in Chelsea long before this and his coffee-house had already …
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