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Excerpt from The Parish of Chelsea, Vol. 1: Being the Second Volume of the Survey of London, and the Eleventh Publication, of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London This first volume of our Survey of Chelsea, includes all that part of the parish looking towards the river, which lies between the Royal Hospital on the east and the Old Church on the west. The buildings are, in the main, of 18th century date, or a few years older, and they owe their existence chiefly to two events in Chelsea history. The one, the completion of the Royal Hospital in I 69 1, whence sprang Paradise Row and the other, the purchase of the Manor by Sir Hans Sloane, which gave us the charming houses in Cheyne Walk. But if most of our illustrations are of the architecture of the 1 8th century, there is much to lead our thoughts back to still earlier years, and the trees and walls of the Manor House garden, and the remains of the house and precincts of the Earls of Shrewsbury, afford sufficient excuse for a brief outline of their history. The palace of the Bishops of Winchester, however, which lay between these houses, is entirely gone, and is not therefore included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.