It became a fashionable area in Tudor times. It was the place for artists, like Turner, Whistler and Rossetti, and intelectuals. From the 1960's to the 80's young extravagant bohemian people used to live around the area. Nowadays it is too expensive for them.
Sotes to see:
- King's Road (here started the fashions of the mini-skirt and the punk)
- Carlyle's House. (historian and founder of the London Library; he had gatherings in this house with famous people like Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Darwin)
- Chelsea Old Church
- Roper's Garden
- Cheyne Walk (the plaques on the houses' walls of this street show the names of their old inhabitants: J M W Turner at 119, George Eliot at 4, Henry James, T S Eliot and Ian Fleming...)
- Chelsey Physic Garden
- National Army Museum
- Royal Hospital
- Saatchi Gallery
- Sloane Square
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