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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Chelsea. You may be able to find further references to Chelsea in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | CHELSEA | a London suburb, a parish, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Chelsea.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Notting Hill | district with railway station | Bartholomew |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Chelsea within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 6 | William Camden | Middlesex and London | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs | 2 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland | 1 | John Wesley | 1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield | 1 | John Wesley | 1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Northampton to Gothurst | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Battersea | 6 | 3 |
South Kensington | 0 | 1 |
Brompton | 0 | 2 |
West Brompton | 0 | 2 |
Walham Green | 0 | 2 |
Belgravia | 0 | 3 |
Earls Court | 0 | 2 |
Pimlico | 0 | 2 |
Parsons Green | 0 | 2 |
Knightsbridge | 0 | 2 |
Victoria | 0 | 1 |
Lavender Hill | 0 | 1 |
Nine Elms | 0 | 2 |
Northend | 0 | 2 |
Kensington | 21 | 3 |
Tothill Fields | 0 | 2 |
Hyde Park | 0 | 1 |
Campden Hill | 0 | 1 |
Mayfair | 0 | 4 |
Fulham | 8 | 2 |