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Delve into Chelsea
The district Chelsea of London in Greater London (England) with it's 60,000 habitants Chelsea is a subburb in United Kingdom and is a district of the nations capital.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Kensington, Wandsworth, City of Westminster, Camden Town and Hammersmith. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 10°C / 50 °F
Morning Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
Evening Temperature | 10°C / 49 °F |
Night Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 74% |
Air Pressure | 1036 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 6 km/h (3 mph) from South-West |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 80% of sky |
General Conditions | Broken clouds |
Thursday, 14th of November 2024
11°C (52 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
Friday, 15th of November 2024
10°C (50 °F)
10°C (50 °F)
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Saturday, 16th of November 2024
12°C (54 °F)
10°C (49 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
The Egerton House Hotel
Firmdale Hotels Knightsbridge Hotel
11 Cadogan Gardens
The Franklin Hotel LVX
The Pelham
San Domenico House
Cheval Knightsbridge
The Ampersand
The Adria Boutique
The Exhibitionist
Videos from this area
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Knightsbridge Brompton Chelsea.
Victoria and Albert Museum Garden in The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London
http://www.alistairgleave.co.uk the central garden of the Victoria and Albert Museum in June. The design is a beautiful blend of the traditional and modern, with a formal layout is formal...
Have you seen Harrods upmarket? Widzieliście dom towarowy Harrods?
Luksusowy dom towarowy na Brompton Road, w dzielnicy Knightsbridge, w Londynie. Harrods is an upmarket department store located in Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of ...
Chelsea residents fight social housing sell off
Andrew Barshall discusses plans being made to destroy the historic Sutton Estate in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Planners wish to demolish the red brick buildings built in 1913...
Sushi in London
This is a lovely little sushi place I like in London - Kulu Kulu in South Kensington 39 Thurloe Pl, London SW7 2HP,
Otis lifts at Peter Jones Sloan sq
modernized fairly old Otis lifts at Peter Jones (John Lewis) in Sloan square. http://benobve.110mb.com.
Mistletoe (Viscus album) | Natural History Museum
Museum botanist Fred Rumsey brings us some cheer in our film about lush, green mistletoe. Find out more about the parasitic plant with its very own festive mythology: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mistletoe.
Brompton Square and Brompton Oratory (HD)
Brompton is a beautiful ornate district of London close to Knightsbridge. So on a bright November morning I took the camera to a charming square surrounded by old houses, and visited Brompton...
Derek Roddy drops in on Guru drums at the London Drum Show 2012
Derek Roddy having a quick try on the Guru Origin custom range kit. A huge pleasure to meet such a warm & fun guy, who also happens to be a stunningly skilled artist. Recorded on a Zoom Q3,...
The Thames - Putney Bridge to St Paul's Cathedral - North Bank
http://www.alphatucana.co.uk http://www.mylondonpics.com We went for a long... long! walk along the North bank of the river Thames in London, from Putney Bridge in the West to the Millennium...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Cheyne Walk
Cheyne Walk, is a historic street in Chelsea, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It takes its name from William Lord Cheyne who owned the manor of Chelsea until 1712. Most of the houses were built in the early 18th century. Before the construction in the 19th century of the busy Embankment, which now runs in front of it, the houses fronted the River Thames. The most prominent building is Carlyle Mansions.
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea
The Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1900 and 1965. It was created by the London Government Act 1899 from most of the ancient parish of Chelsea. It was amalgamated in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
King's Road
King's Road or Kings Road, known popularly as The King's Road or The KR, is a major, well-known street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London. It is traditionally associated with 1960s style, and fashion figures such as Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood. Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirt movement had a barracks on the street in the 1930s.
Albert Bridge, London
Albert Bridge is a Grade II* listed road bridge over the River Thames in West London, connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south bank. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, and so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension bridge.
Carlyle's House
Carlyle's House, in the district of Chelsea, in central London, England, was the home acquired by the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, after having lived at Craigenputtock in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. She was a prominent woman of letters, for nearly half a century. The building dates from 1708 and is at No. 24 Cheyne Row (No. 5 at Carlyle's time); the house is now owned by the National Trust.
Gateways club
The Gateways club was a noted lesbian nightclub located at 239 Kings Road on the corner of Bramerton Street, Chelsea, London, England. It was the longest-surviving such club in the world, opening in 1930 and legally becoming a "members club" in 1936. It closed on Saturday 21 September 1985 after some years of only opening for a few hours each weekend.
Royal Brompton Hospital
Royal Brompton Hospital is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the United Kingdom (UK). The hospital is part of Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is a national and international specialist heart and lung centre based in Chelsea, London and Harefield, Middlesex. The Trust helps patients from all age groups who have heart and lung problems and is the country's largest centre for the treatment of adult congenital heart disease.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Marsden Hospital (RM) is a specialist cancer treatment hospital in London, England. It is an NHS Foundation Trust, and operates facilities on two sites: The Chelsea site in Brompton, next to the Royal Brompton Hospital, on Fulham Road The Sutton site in Belmont, close to Sutton Hospital, High Down and Downview Prisons
Michelin House
Michelin House at 81 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London was constructed as the first permanent UK headquarters and tyre depot for the Michelin Tyre Company Ltd. The building opened for business on 20 January 1911.
Old Church Street
Old Church Street is a street in London, England in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. http://www. rbkc. gov. uk/vmgallery/general/large. asp?gallery=vm_history&img=history/thumb/vm_hs_0001. jpg&size=large&caller=vm_history_gallery. asp&cpg=1&tpg=4 It runs from Chelsea Embankment to Fulham Road, crossing Kings Road. The section to the north of Kings Road is sometimes called Upper Old Church Street.
Tom Aikens (restaurant)
Tom Aikens is a restaurant on Elystan Street in Chelsea, London, England. It was opened in 2003 by Tom Aikens and his then-wife, Laura Vanninen. The style of the food is contemporary French. The restaurant won a Michelin star in January 2004 and three stars in the revived Egon Ronay Guide for 2005. In 2005, it was named in Restaurant's Top 50.
Tom's Kitchen
Tom's Kitchen is a restaurant on Cale Street in London's Chelsea. It opened in November 2006 and was Tom Aikens' second restaurant as proprietor. In October 2008 Tom’s Kitchen and the Michelin-starred Tom Aikens in London’s Chelsea were acquired by TA Holdco Ltd, after being put into administration.
Cohen House, London
Cohen House is a private house on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London. It was designed and built in 1935-6 by the architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff. The house was built for the Cohen family. It adjoins 66 Old Church Street designed at the same time by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry. The latter house has been altered beyond recognition. By comparison Cohen House is well preserved. The large conservatory was designed by Norman Foster in the 1970s.
Chelsea Old Church
Chelsea Old Church (aka All Saints) is on the north bank of the River Thames near Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London, England. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. It is located on the corner of Old Church Street and Cheyne Walk. Inside, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. It is now a Grade I listed building.
Don Saltero's
Don Saltero's was a coffee house based in Chelsea, London, founded in 1695 by James Salter. Don Saltero's was distinct from other seventeenth and eighteenth century London coffee houses in that it contained many cabinets of curiosities. Don Saltero's was originally a barbers shop until Sir Hans Sloane began to donate unwanted objects from his own collections into the hands of James Salter, his former travelling servant.
Carlyle Mansions
Carlyle Mansions is a block of flats located on Cheyne Walk, in the Chelsea area of London, England. Built in 1886, it was named after Thomas Carlyle, himself a resident of Chelsea for much of his life. Carlyle Mansions is nicknamed the "Writers’ Block", as it has been home to Henry James, Erskine Childers, T. S. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Ian Fleming and other noted authors.
Chelsea Classic Cinema
The Chelsea Classic Cinema was a cinema originally opened in 1913 as the Chelsea Picture Playhouse, in the King's Road, Chelsea. It was designed by Felix Joubert, the cabinet maker and owner of The Pheasantry next door at number 152. It was built on land previously occupied by Box Farm (built in 1686 and demolished in 1899). On the western corner of Markham Street, it was initially opened by the London & Provincial Electric Theatre Company in 1913 with seating for 394 on a single floor.
Radnor Walk
Radnor Walk is a residential street in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea off the King's Road in London. The houses are mid and late Victorian and the street is part of the Royal Hospital Conservation Area. The well known local restaurant Zianni is situated at number 45, while at the top of the street is the Hill House School Founders' Hall. Famous residents include John Betjeman. It runs parallel to Shawfield Street and Smith Street.
Shawfield Street
Shawfield Street is a street in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea off King's Road in SW3. On the corner is Shawfield House, a 7-bedroom mansion currently owned by Charles Saatchi and wife Nigella Lawson, which was redeveloped by them from a former gas engineering works. There is also an Oxfam shop on Shawfield Street and a haridresser's called Vanilla . It is parallel to Radnor Walk and Flood Street.
Onslow Square
Onslow Square is a garden square in South Kensington, southwest London, England. The square lies between the Old Brompton Road to the northwest and the Fulham Road to the southeast. To the north is South Kensington tube station. To the south is the Royal Marsden Hospital. As well as the main square, the address covers the street to the southwest that turns into Onslow Gardens, and the street to the northwest that meets Pelham Street by South Kensington tube station.
Allen Hall Seminary
Allen Hall is the Roman Catholic seminary of the Province of Westminster, England.
66 Old Church Street, Chelsea
66 Old Church Street, Chelsea, London was designed in 1935-1936 for the politician and playwright Benn Levy by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry. Levy House formed part of a joint development with Cohen House, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff for the publisher Denis Cohen. It was listed Grade II in 1970.
Flood Street
Flood Street is a residential street in Chelsea, London, England. It runs between King's Road to the north and Royal Hospital Road to the south. Just further to the south is the River Thames. The closest tube station is Sloane Square to the northeast. The most famous resident of Flood Street (No. 19) was the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The house was bought by Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis Thatcher in 1967 and sold in 1986.
Paultons Square
Paultons Square is a Georgian terraced garden square in south-west London. It was built in in 1836-40, on the site of a former market garden, land previously owned by Sir Thomas More and Sir John Danvers. The square features a central lawned garden, enclosed by metal railings. The garden is private, and accessible by local residents only. The square's houses are grade II listed buildings.
St Luke's Church, Chelsea
The Parish Church of St Luke, Chelsea is an Anglican church, on Sydney Street, Chelsea, London SW3, just off the King's Road. Ecclesiastically it is in the Deanery of Chelsea, part of the Diocese of London. It was designed by James Savage in 1819 and is of architectural significance as one of the earliest Gothic Revival churches in London, perhaps the earliest to be a complete new construction.