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Chelsea Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and walkway along the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. The western end of Chelsea Embankment, including a stretch of Cheyne Walk , is in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ; the eastern end, including Grosvenor Road and Millbank , is in the City of ...
Chelsea is an area in West London, England, due south-west of Charing Cross by approximately 2.5 miles (4 km). ... Chelsea Embankment Gardens, ...
The government itself built the Chelsea Embankment in 1854 from Chelsea Hospital to Millbank. A plan of the Thames Embankment Started in 1862, the Victoria Embankment starting from Millbank on the main, north ( or "left" bank ) was primarily designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette with architectural work on the embankment wall and river stairs by ...
Swan House, 17 Chelsea Embankment in 2011 Swan House, 17 Chelsea Embankment Architect R. Norman Shaw included distinctive bay windows on the first floor Swan House, circa 1885. Swan House is a Grade II* listed house at 17 Chelsea Embankment on the north bank of the River Thames in Chelsea, central London, England.
Cheyne Walk is a historic road in Chelsea, London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It runs parallel with the River Thames. Before the construction of Chelsea Embankment reduced the width of the Thames here, it fronted the river along its whole length.
Cattle grazing below high water, Isle of Dogs, 1792 (Robert Dodd, detail: National Maritime Museum) The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a shallow waterway winding through malarious marshlands, and perhaps five times broader than today, has been transformed by human intervention into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between ...
A statue of Thomas Carlyle by Joseph Edgar Boehm stands in Chelsea Embankment Gardens in London. Erected in 1881 and unveiled in 1882, it stands close to 24 Cheyne Row where Carlyle lived for the last 47 years of his life. The statue became a Grade II listed building on 15 April 1969. [1]
As London grew following the advent of the railways, Chelsea began to become congested, and in 1842 the Commission of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues recommended the building of an embankment at Chelsea to free new land for development, and proposed the building of a new bridge downstream of Battersea Bridge and the replacement of Battersea ...