18 Facts About Chelsea London

Chelsea London historically formed a manor and parish in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex, which became the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea London in 1900.

Chelsea London is home to one of the largest communities of Americans living outside the United States, with 6.

The first record of the Manor of Chelsea London precedes the Domesday Book and records the fact that Thurstan, governor of the King's Palace during the reign of Edward the Confessor, gave the land to the Abbot and Convent of Westminster.

The street crossing that was known as Little Chelsea London, Park Walk, linked Fulham Road to King's Road and continued to the Thames and local ferry down Lover's Lane, renamed "Milmans Street" in the 18th century.

Chelsea London once had a reputation for the manufacture of Chelsea London buns, made from a long strip of sweet dough tightly coiled, with currants trapped between the layers, and topped with sugar.

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St Mark's College, Chelsea London, was founded in 1841, based on the beliefs of The Reverend Derwent Coleridge, son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, its first principal: that its primary purpose was to widen the educational horizons of its students.

The former chapel of St Mark's College, designed by Edward Blore is on the Fulham Road, Chelsea London, and is a private residence.

Dring the mid 1800s, Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea London, was a popular pleasure gardens area established in 1845.

Chelsea London installed numerous artefacts and objets d'art around the house and gardens and it was known locally as the "Gingerbread Castle".

Chelsea London was home to writers such as George Meredith, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle.

Chelsea London Collection is a priceless anthology of prints and pictures of old Chelsea London.

Chelsea London Society, formed in 1927, remains an active amenity society concerned with preserving and advising on changes in Chelsea London's built environment.

The Western end of Chelsea London featured boutiques Granny Takes a Trip and The Sweet Shop, the latter of which sold medieval silk velvet caftans, tabards and floor cushions, with many of the cultural cognoscenti of the time being customers, including Twiggy and many others.

Chelsea London includes large parts of the SW3 and SW10 postal districts, and a small section of SW1.

Chelsea London property market attracts considerable attention, and is a very complex market as it consists mainly of short leases under Earl Cadogan as freeholder.

Much of Chelsea London is viewed as a "Global Ultra Prime Residential Area".

Chelsea London doesn't have an Underground station, but there are two stations close to its boundary; Sloane Square to the east and Gloucester Road to the north.

The project, run by Transport for Chelsea London, has not yet been approved or funded but is at the consultation stage.