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A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12 - Chelsea

Year published

2004

Author

Patricia E.C. Croot (editor)

Description

Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and courtiers from the fifteenth century, a pleasure resort for all ranks of society from the eighteenth; and now one of the most expensive and desirable places to live in London

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Source

Victoria County History: Middlesex (Secondary texts)

Places

London

Subjects

Local

Periods

11th and 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th

Showing records 1 - 50 of 56

1
List of illustrations
IX-X
2
List of colour plates
XI
3
List of maps and plans
XI
4
Middlesex Victoria County History committee
XII
5
Foreword and acknowledgements
XIII
6
Abbreviations and commonly cited works
XIV-XVII
7
Hundredal maps
XVIII
8
The parish of Chelsea - Introduction
1-2
9
The parish of Chelsea - Communications
2-13
10
The parish of Chelsea - Population
13
11
Settlement and building - Introduction
14
12
Settlement and building - Chelsea up to 1680
14-26
13
Settlement and building - From 1680 to 1865: general introduction
26-31
14
Settlement and building - From 1680 to 1865: Chelsea Village or Great Chelsea
31-40
15
Settlement and building - From 1680 to 1865: south-east Chelsea and the Royal Hospital
41-47
16
Settlement and building - From 1680 to 1865: Hans Town
47-51
17
Settlement and building - From 1680 to 1865: Chelsea Park to Blacklands
51-60
18
Settlement and building - From 1680 to 1865: Little Chelsea, Sandy End and World's End
61-66
19
Settlement and building - From 1865 to 1900
66-78
20
Settlement and building - Twentieth century: introduction
78
21
Settlement and building - Twentieth century: up to the second world war
79-90
22
Settlement and building - Twentieth century: after the second world war
91-101
23
Settlement and building - Artists and Chelsea
102-106
24
Landownership - Introduction
107-108
25
Landownership - Chelsea manor
108-115
26
Landownership - More's estate
115-118
27
Landownership - Hungerford estate
118-121
28
Landownership - Other medieval estates and freeholdings
121-123
29
Landownership - Later estates
123-145
30
Economic history - Agriculture
146-150
31
Economic history - Farm-gardening and market gardening
150-155
32
Economic history - Trade and industry
156-165
33
Social history - Social and cultural activites
166-176
34
Social history - Education: introduction
176-179
35
Social history - Education: publicly funded schools
179-187
36
Social history - Education: adult and technical education
187-190
37
Social history - Education: private schools
190-195
38
Social history - Charities for the poor
195-201
39
Local government - Manorial government
202-203
40
Local government - Parish government to 1837
203-206
41
Local government - Poor relief and rates to 1837
206-210
42
Local government - Petty sessions before 1837
210
43
Local government - Local government from 1837
210-217
44
Local government - Public services
217-233
45
Local government - Council and parliamentary representation
233-235
46
Religious history - Introduction
236
47
Religious history - Religious buildings
236-238
48
Religious history - The parish church
238-250
49
Religious history - Church extension
250-258
50
Religious history - Roman catholicism
259-263
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