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Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and courtiers from the fifteenth century, and a pleasure resort for all ranks of society from the eighteenth; it is now one of the most expensive and desirable places to live in London. This new volume relates all this and more, including a re-examination of the location of Sir Thomas More's house, a reassessment of Henry VIII's relationship with the manor house, the history of a major estate not previously identified, and a survey of the farm-gardening which gave prosperity to some local inhabitants. Facets of Chelsea's more recent history covered include the rebuilding of eastern Chelsea, which removed a large lower middle- and working-class population and replaced their accommodation with houses for the well-off; the artistic community which grew up in the late nineteenth century from which Chelsea derived its bohemian reputation; and the cultural and commercial changes of the Swinging Sixties.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: A History of the County of Middlesex
• Subtitle: Volume XII: Chelsea
• Author: Patricia E. C. Croot
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9781904356240
• ISBN: 1904356249
• ID: 05023706
• Publisher: Victoria County History
• Weight: 1566 g
• Dimensions: 305 × 208 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2004

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