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The word Chelsea means "landing place [on the river]
for chalk or limestone" (Old English). Anglo-Saxon Cealc-hy?
= "chalk wharf". The first Properties to let in London record
of the Manor of Chelsea 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.
Abbot Gervace subsequently assigned the manor to his mother,
and it passed into private ownership. Modern-day Chelsea was
the site of the Synod of Chelsea in Properties to let in London 787
AD. In the ancient records, it is written as Chelchith, which
Norden, a writer of considerable note, derives from the Saxon
words ceale or cele, meaning "coldness", and hyd,
meaning "port" or "haven".
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Properties to let in London King Henry VIII acquired
the manor of Chelsea from Lord Sandys in 1536; Chelsea
Manor Street is still extant. Two of his wives, Catherine
Parr and Anne of Cleves, lived in the Manor House; Princess
Elizabeth – the future Queen Elizabeth I – was a resident;
and Thomas More lived more or less next door at Beaufort House.
James I established a theological college on the site of Chelsea
Royal Hospital, which was later founded by Charles II.
Figure Court of Royal Hospital Chelsea
By 1694, Chelsea – always a popular location for the wealthy,
and once Properties to let in London described as "a
village of palaces" – had a population of 3,000. Even
so, Chelsea remained rural and served London to the east as
a market garden, a trade that continued until the 19th-century
development boom which caused the district to finally absorb
into the metropolis. The street crossing what was known as
"Little Chelsea", 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 Properties to let in London.
Statue of King Charles II on the site of the Chelsea Flower
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