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BC |
Borough council |
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BL |
British Library |
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Bacon, Atlas of London (1910) |
New Large-Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs, ed. G.W. Bacon (1910) |
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Beaven, Aldermen
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A.B. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London temp. Henry III to 1912 (2 vols, 1908, 1913) |
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Beaver, Memorials
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A. Beaver, Memorials of Old Chelsea (1892) |
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Bignell, Chelsea 1860-1980 |
J. Bignell, Chelsea seen from 1860 to 1980 (1978) |
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Blunt, Chelsea
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R. Blunt, An Illustrated Historical Handbook to the Parish of Chelsea (1900) |
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Booth, Life and Labour
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C. Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London (17 vols. revised edn 1902-4). Chelsea surveyed in 1899 |
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Booth's Map (1889) |
Charles Booth's Descriptive Map of London Poverty, 1889 (London Topographical Society 1984) |
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Borer, Two Villages
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M.C. Borer, Two Villages. The Story of Chelsea and Kensington (1973) |
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Bowack, Antiquities
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J. Bowack, The Antiquities of Middlesex (1705) |
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Bradley, 'Gothic Revival' |
S. Bradley, 'The Gothic Revival and the Church of England, 1790-1840' (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1996) |
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Bryan, Chelsea
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G. Bryan, Chelsea in the Olden & Present Times (1869) |
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CCC |
Council for the Care of Churches (formerly Council for Places of Worship). |
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CL |
Chelsea Library |
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CLRO |
Corporation of London Record Office |
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Calamy Revised
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Calamy Revised, ed. A.G. Matthews (1934) |
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Cal. Middx Sess. Bks |
Calendars of Sessions Books, 1638-1752, at LMA |
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Cal. Middx Sess. Rec. |
Calendar of Sessions Records, 1607-12, at LMA |
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Chantry Cert. |
London and Middlesex Chantry Certificate, 1548, ed. C.J. Kitching (London Record Society, XVI, 1980) |
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Chelsea BC, Mins
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Chelsea Borough Council, Minutes, in CL |
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Chelsea Chars 1862
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The Chelsea Charities, 1862. Report of the Committee of the Vestry (1863) |
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Chelsea cuttings |
at Chelsea Library |
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Chelsea Dir. (1878) |
Chelsea, Pimlico and Belgravia Directory (1878) |
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Chelsea Misc. |
at Chelsea Library |
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Chelsea Scraps |
at Chelsea Library |
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Chelsea Settlement Examinations 1733-66
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Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766, ed. T. Hitchcock and J. Black (London Rec. Soc. xxxiii, 1999) |
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Chelsea Soc. Rep. |
Chelsea Society Annual Reports
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Clarke, London Chs
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B.F.L. Clarke, Parish Churches of London (1966) |
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Clunn, London Marches On
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H.P. Clunn, London Marches On [1947] |
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Clunn, London Rebuilt
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H.P. Clunn, London Rebuilt, 1897-1927 (1927) |
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Colvin, Brit. Architects
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H. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 (1978) |
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Croker, Walk from London to Fulham
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T.C. Croker, A Walk from London to Fulham [c. 1845], enlarged by B. Horne (1896) |
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Cruchley's New Plan (1826, 1829) |
[G.F.] Cruchley's New Plan of London and Its Environs (1826, 1829) |
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DNB
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Dictionary of National Biography
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Davies, Chelsea Old Ch. |
R. Davies, Chelsea Old Church (1904) |
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Davies, Greatest Ho. |
R. Davies, The Greatest House at Chelsey (1914) |
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Dean, Royal Hosp. |
C.G.T. Dean, The Royal Hospital, Chelsea (1950) |
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Denny, Chelsea Past
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B. Denny, Chelsea Past (1996) |
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Edwards, London Street Improvements
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P.J. Edwards, History of London Street Improvements, 1855-97 (1898) |
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Endowed Chars London (1897) |
Endowed Charities (County of London), I (Parl. Papers, 1897 (394), LXVI(2)) |
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Endowed Chars London (1901) |
Endowed Charities (County of London), IV (Parl. Papers, 1901 (133), LI) |
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Endowed Chars London (1904) |
Endowed Charities (County of London), (Parl. Papers, 1904 (333-II), LXXIII) |
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Educ. Enquiry Abs. |
Education Enquiry Abstract, 1833 (Parl. Papers, 1835 (62), XLII) |
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Educ. of Poor Digest
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Digest of Returns to Committee on Education of Poor (Parl. Papers, 1819 (224), IX(1)) |
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Faulkner, Chelsea
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T. Faulkner, Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea and its Environs (2 vols. 1829) |
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Faulkner, Chelsea (1810) |
Single volume edition, mainly superseded by the above |
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Freshfield, Communion Plate
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E. Freshfield, Communion Plate of the Parish Churches in the County of London (1895) |
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GLC |
Greater London Council |
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Guildhall MSS |
City of London, Guildhall Library. Contains registers of wills of the commissary court of London (London Division) (MS 9171), bishops' registers (MS 9531), diocesan administrative records (MSS 9532-9560), and registers of nonconformist meeting houses (MS 9580) |
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Hamilton, Map (1664-1717) |
J. Hamilton, Map of Chelsea (1664, continued to 1717) |
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Hist. London Transport
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T.C. Barker and M. Robbins, History of London Transport (2 vols. 1975) |
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Hist. King's Works, IV |
History of the King's Works, vol. IV, 1485-1660 (Part II), ed. H.M. Colvin et al. (1982) |
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Hist. King's Works, V |
History of the King's Works, vol. V, 1660-1782, H.M. Colvin et al. (1976) |
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Hist. King's Works, VI |
History of the King's Works, vol. VI, 1782-1851, ed. J.M. Crook and M.H. Port (1973) |
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Hennessy, Novum Rep. |
G. Hennessy, Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense (1894) |
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Holme, Chelsea
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T. Holme, Chelsea (1972) |
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Hug. Soc. |
Huguenot Society of London |
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Hunting, Manor Ho. to Mus. |
P. Hunting, From Manor House to Museum (1995) |
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Hutt, Royal Hosp. |
G. Hutt, Papers Illustrative of the Origin and Early History of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea (HMSO 1872) |
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ILEA |
Inner London Education Authority |
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Images of Chelsea
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E. Longford, Images of Chelsea (1980) |
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Improvement com. mins. |
MS volumes at Chelsea Library |
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KL |
Kensington Library |
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Kens. |
Kensington |
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Dr King's MS |
'An Account of Chelsea', bound MS vol. in CL, with original pagination from p. 145 |
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LAARC |
London Archaeological Archive Research Centre, Museum of London, 46 Eagle Wharf Rd, London N1 7 ED |
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LB |
London Borough |
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LCC |
London County Council |
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LCC, London Statistics
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LCC, London Statistics (26 vols. 1905-6 to 1936-8, beginning with vol. xvi). Followed by ibid. new series (2 vols. 1945-54 and 1947-56) and by further new series from 1957 |
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LCC, Names of Streets
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LCC, List of the Streets and Places within the County of London (1901 and later edns) |
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LMA |
London Metropolitan Archives. Formerly the Greater London Record Office (GLRO), and contains the collection of the former Middlesex Record Office (MRO) |
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Lambeth Pal. Lib. |
Lambeth Palace Library |
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Loobey, Chelsea
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P. Loobey, Images of England: Chelsea (1999) |
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Lysons, Environs
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D. Lysons, The Environs of London (4 vols. 1792-6 and Supplement 1811) |
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MB |
Metropolitan Borough |
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MBW |
Metropolitan Board of Works |
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MCS |
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers |
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MLR |
Middlesex Land Registry. The enrolments, indexes, and registers are at LMA |
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Mackeson's Guide
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C. Mackeson, A Guide to the Churches of London and Its Suburbs (1866 and later edns) |
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Middx County Rec. |
Middlesex County Records [1550-1688], ed. J.C. Jeaffreson (4 vols. 1886-92) |
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Middx County Rec. Sess. Bks 1689-1709 |
Middlesex County Records, Calendar of the Sessions Books 1689-1709, ed. W.J. Hardy (1905) |
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Middx Sess. Rec. |
Calendar to the Sessions Records [1612-18], ed. W. le Hardy (4 vols. 1935-41) |
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Middleton, View
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J. Middleton, View of the Agriculture of Middlesex (1798) |
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Mudie-Smith, Rel. Life
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R. Mudie-Smith, The Religious Life of London (1904). Census taken 1903 |
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N&Q
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Notes & Queries
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NMR |
English Heritage (formerly Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England), National Monuments Record |
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NRA(S) |
National Register of Archives for Scotland |
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Newcourt, Rep. |
R. Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense (2 vols. 1708-10) |
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Old OS Map |
Old Ordnance Survey Maps: edition published by Alan Godfrey, Gateshead, from 1983 (reduced facsimile reproductions of 1:2,500 maps c. 1865-1914). Chelsea is covered by London sheets 87 (1865, 1894), 88 (1869, 1894), 74 (1871, 1894), 100 (1894). |
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ONS |
Office for National Statistics, Birkdale. Formerly the General Register Office (GRO) |
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PO Dir. |
Post Office Directory
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PRO |
Public Record Office |
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Pearman, Cadogan Est. |
R. Pearman, The Cadogan Estate: The History of a Landed Family (1986) |
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Pevsner, London, ii. |
N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: London except the Cities of London and Westminster (1952) |
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Pevsner, London NW. |
B. Cherry and N. Pevsner, Buildings of England, London 3: North West (1999) |
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P.N. Middx (E.P.N.S.) |
Place-Names of Middlesex (English Place-Name Society, vol. xviii, 1942) |
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Places of Worship
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Places of Worship in Chelsea [Chelsea Soc. and RBKC exhibition catalogue (2001)] |
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Poor rate bk |
MSS in CL, covering 1695-1705, 1707-16, 1716-27, 1728-42, 1748-51 |
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Pop. bk (1801) |
In Chelsea Library |
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RBKC |
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
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Reid, Hundred Yrs in Chelsea Par. |
H. Reid, One Hundred Years in a Chelsea Parish. A history and survey of Christ Church [1939] |
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Regency A to Z
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The A to Z of Regency London, intro. P. Laxton (1985). Reproduction of R. Horwood's Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster (1813 edn) |
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Rep. on Bridges in Middx
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Report of the Committee of Magistrates Appointed to make Enquiry respecting the Public Bridges in the County of Middlesex (1826). Copy at LMA |
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Rep. of Com. on London Sqs
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Report of Royal Commission on London Squares (Parl. Papers, 1928-9 [Cmd. 3196], VIII), App. III |
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2nd
Rep. Com. Met. Improvements
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2nd
Report of the Commissioners. . . to inquire into . . . improving the Metropolis (1845), copy in CL |
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5th
Rep. Com. Met. Improvements
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5th
Report of the Commissioners . . . to inquire into . . . improving the Metropolis (1846), copy in CL |
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Richardson's Map (1769) |
Cadogan Estate Office, Richardson's Map of Chelsea, 1769 |
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Rocque, Map of London (1741-5) |
J. Rocque, Exact survey of the cities of London, Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, and the country near ten miles around (1746, facsimile edn 1971) |
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Stroud, Smith's Char. |
D. Stroud, The South Kensington Estate of Henry Smith's Charity (1975) |
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Stanford, Map of London (1862-5) |
Stanford's Library Map of London and Its Suburbs (1862 edn with additions to 1865) |
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Survey of London, II |
LCC, Survey of London, vol. II, Parish of Chelsea (Part I) (1908) |
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Survey of London, IV |
LCC, Survey of London, vol. IV, Parish of Chelsea (Part II) (1913) |
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Survey of London, VII |
LCC, Survey of London, vol. VII, The Old Church, Chelsea (Part III) (1921) |
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Survey of London, XI |
LCC, Survey of London, vol. XI, Chelsea, The Royal Hospital (Part IV) (1927) |
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TLMAS |
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (1856 to date). Consecutive numbers are used for the whole series, although vols. VII-XVII (1905-54) appeared as NS I-XI. |
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Thompson, Map (1836) |
F.P. Thompson, Map of Chelsea (1836) |
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Vestry mins |
MS volumes in Chelsea Library |
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Vestry mins
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Printed vols. 1881 to 1900, in Chelsea Library |
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Vestry orders |
MS volumes in Chelsea Library |
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Vestry orders, 1662-1718 |
Vol. entitled 'Orders of Vestry and Poor rates 1662-1718, in Chelsea Library |
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Vestry rep. |
Printed vols in Chelsea Library, 1856-7 (1st rep. of vestry appointed under Metropolitan Local Management Act, 1855) to 1899-1900 (44th and last rep.) |
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WAM |
Westminster Abbey Muniments, in the Chapter Library |
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WCS |
Westminster Commission of Sewers |
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Walker and Jackson, Kens. and Chelsea
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A. Walker and P. Jackson, Kensington and Chelsea: a social and architectural history (1987) |
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Walker Revised
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Walker Revised, ed. A.G. Matthews (1948) |
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Walkley, Artists' Hos in London
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G. Walkley, Artists' Houses in London 1764-1914 (1994) |
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Westm. |
Westminster |
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Westm. Dom. |
Westminster Domesday in Westminster Abbey Chapter Lib. |
