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Topic: Chelsea
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deborahknowles
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posted 05-09-2001 01:37 PM
  
When did a place in England called Chelsea "appear"? Would it have been well known in the early thirteen-hundreds or was it not even built? Please no replies about football!------------------
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Peter
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posted 05-10-2001 12:37 PM
Hi Deborah,
are you ready for all this ?
If I can balance this tome on my knee and type, you can have it straight off the page.
" In Faulkner's "History of Chelsea", we read that the parish is bounded on the north by Fulham road, which seperates it from Kensington, on the east by a rivulet which divides it from St. George's, Hanover Square, and which enters the Thames near Ranelagh; on the west a brook which rises near Wormholt Scrubs, and falls into the Thames facing Battersea Church, divides this parish from that of Fulham; and on the south it is bounded by the Thames.
Lysons observes that the most ancient record in which he has seen the name of this place mentioned is in a charter of Edward the Confessor, in which it is written 'Cealchylle'. The name seems to have puzzled the Norman scribes, for in the Domesday Book it is written both 'Cercehede' and 'Celched', and in certain documents of a later periodit is called 'Chelcheth' and 'Chelcith'. The word 'Chelsey' observes Mr. Norman Brewer, in the 'Beauties of England and Wales', was first adpoted in the 16thC, and the present mode of spelling the name seems to have grown appears to have grown into use about a century back ((My book dated about 1870)).
Macaulay reminds us that, at the end of the reign of Charles II, Chelsea was a' quiet country village with about 1,000 inhabitants'.
It may be remarked that the name Chelsea has been derived by some writers from "Shelves" of sand, and "ey" or "ea", land situated near water.
Etc. etc.
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