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Chelsea

Bounded by the River Thames, Chelsea is a West London area that is affluent. Along Cheyne Walk, Chelsea Embankment, Chelsea Harbour and Lots Road, from Chelsea Bridge its frontage runs. With trees and a hothouse for raising silkworms, the Raw Silk Company was established in Chelsea Park in 1718.

Patronised by the Georgian royalty, Chelsea Bun House sold these during the 18th century. The Chelsea College of Art and Design, founded as the Chelsea School of Art in 1895, moved in 2005 to Pimlico from Manresa Road; the Chelsea Arts Club continues in situ. Chelsea College of Art and Design purchased the building in 1980.

The developments outside of Chelsea are Chelsea Harbour and Chelsea Village. All of Chelsea is in (RBKC) the Kensington and Chelsea Royal Borough. RBKC meets the Westminster borough (COW) on the side that is eastern, at Chelsea Bridge Road this meets where, with one side of the road being in COW and the other in RBKC, the postcode is SW1W.

Around Knightsbridge tube and Sloane Square is the desirable part of Chelsea. At Chelsea Harbour on West London Line, which is on the southwestern edge of Chelsea, is the Imperial Wharf railway station. Set up (on Nell Gwynne's suggestion) by Charles II, and opened in 1694, is Chelsea Royal Hospital, the building that is best-known for old soldiers.

It formed, from 1900, the Chelsea Metropolitan Borough in London and until, in 1965, the Greater London creation. Battersea Bridge Gardens, Albert Bridge Gardens, Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea Embankment Gardens: used by the Chelsea Physic Garden and Chelsea Show are the grounds of which, include open spaces that the area is home to.

Prominent for a time in the 18th century, Chelsea Cricket Club played home matches on what was then Chelsea Common, an area that disappeared under building work in the 19th century. Russian billionaire and Chelsea resident, Roman Abramovich, owns the club.