Cheyne Walk
Names
- Cheyne Walk
Street/Area/District
- Cheyne Walk
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Descriptions
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Cheyne-Walk, Chelsea,—is situate on the N. side of the Thames, extending from Paradise-row, by the Hospital, towards Battersea-bridge.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Cheyne-Walk, Chelsea, is on the north side of the Thames, and leads from Paradise-row towards Batersea-bridge.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, a terrace of houses by the river-side, screened by a row of trees, and so called after Charles, Lord Viscount Cheyne, Lord of the Manor of Chelsea (d. 1698). Some of the houses, of red brick with wrought -iron gates, retain much of their original Queen Anne or Georgian character. Cheyne Walk has always been in favour with artists. Turner lived at No. 119 for some years, and there he died, December 18, 1851. Daniel Maclise lived at No. 4, and died there April 25, 1870. George Elliot (Mrs. Cross) died in this house in 1880. Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived at No. 16, called Queen's House, and associated with the name of Queen Catherine of Braganza. No. 18 was Don Saltero's Coffee-house [which see].