Chelsea, England

Chelsea, a district of London, England, is loosely defined by the area around the King's Road. It is bounded to the south by the River Thames and to the east by the Sloane Square tube station. From 1900 until the creation of the Greater London in 1965, Chelsea formed the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea in the County of London. Nowadays, the district is part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Chelsea once had a reputation as London's bohemian quarter due to the fact that it became a sort of Victorian artists' colony during the 18th and 19th centuries. Chelsea was the home of painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J.M.W. Turner, James McNeill Whistler and William Holman Hunt, as well as writers such as Thomas Carlyle, George Meredith, Richard Steele and Jonathan Swift.

Chelsea was once famous for the manufacture of buns. A Chelsea bun is made from a long strip of sweet dough tightly coiled, with currants trapped between the layers, and topped with sugar. Today, Chelsea is still famous for its china ware, though the Chelsea porcelain factory moved to Derby after it was sold in 1769.

The National Army Museum, Turner's House, the Chelsea Physic Garden and the antique shops off Sloane Square and Pimlico Road are some of the must-see places in the district.

Besides the artists who lived and worked in the area during the 18th and 19th centuries, other famous residents of Chelsea include Margaret Thatcher, Kylie Minogue, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gwyneth Paltrow and Johnny Depp.