Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHELSEA (Little)

CHELSEA (Little), a London suburb in Chelsea and Kensington parishes, Westminster; adjacent to the Kensington canal and the Westminster cemetery, at the west end of Chelsea, 4 miles SW of St. Paul's. Chelsea Park and the Pavilion here are prominent residences. Shaftesbury House here, now a workhouse of St. George-Hanover-square, was the seat of the third Earl of Shaftesbury, author of the ' ' Characteristics. "


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a London suburb"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: London AncC
Place names: CHELSEA     |     CHELSEA LITTLE     |     LITTLE CHELSEA

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