Location: Chelsea
Top Things to do in Chelsea
Things to do in London, England: The Best Sights & Landmarks
The crown jewels, Buckingham Palace, Camden Market…in London, history collides with art, fashion, food, and good British ale. A perfect day is different for everyone: culture aficionados shouldn't miss the Tate Modern and the Royal Opera House. If you love fashion, Oxford Street has shopping galore. For foodies, cream tea at Harrod’s or crispy fish from a proper chippy offers classic London flavor. Music and book buffs will love seeing Abbey Road and the Sherlock Holmes Museum (at 221B Baker Street, of course).
Restaurants in London
1. Carlyle's House
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 105 reviews
Reviewed By tkota - Madeley, United Kingdom
Special Victorian house. Well preserved. Even has outside toilet. It is dark inside and must have been quite a sombre atmosphere inside. Loads of personal/local history of the Carlisle’s. They didn’t have any children but he always seemed to be visiting Scotland, which couldn’t have helped! Fascinating loft conversion with roof windows, sliding shutters , etc. Clever design. Details about problems with builders, home help are very interesting. Mrs C. kept diaries which are on show. Really worth the entrance fee. Free if you are a NT member.
2. Royal Hospital Chelsea
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 269 reviews
The Royal Hospital Chelsea was founded in 1682 by King Charles II as the home of the Chelsea Pensioners. As well as being a wonderful home for retired service personnel, it is also one of London's best kept secrets! While the site is generally open daily for public visitors; for the best overview of the history of the Hospital, plus fascinating insights into life as a Chelsea Pensioner today, why not book one of the daily walking tours? These last around ninety minutes and are always led by one of the Chelsea Pensioners, who will take great pride in showing you around their fascinating home. Tours include the Royal Hospital's Great Hall, Wren Chapel, Figure Court, Ranelagh Gardens (subject to the time of year) museum and gift shop. Tours begin at 10:00am and 1.30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). Please note that this tour covers internal and external spaces, and will include stairs. For more information visit - https://chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/tours
Reviewed By TonyHodson - Northumberland, United Kingdom
Next door to the National Army Museum, this is the home of the Chelsea Pensioners. Brave men and women who served their country and are now enjoying life in their later years. A lovely place to look around. Very, very tranquil and photogenic. Highly recommended.
3. St Luke’s Church
4. Chelsea Old Church
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 18 reviews
Reviewed By AnnieRoseSW
A walking tour along the Thames brought us past Chelsea Old Church. The exterior alone is filled with plenty of history, as it still holds several original stones. A statue of Saint Thomas More sits next to the churchyard, since More prayed inside the Chelsea Old Church when he lived in Chelsea in the 16th Century. A special part of London to visit for both a historic and spiritual spot on your tour, with some nice restaurants and views to boot.
5. Michelin House
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 37 reviews
Reviewed By Andy-S60 - London, United Kingdom
An easy walk from South kensington tube station, this ex Michelin office, built in 1911, is worth a trip in itself. It always amazes me that Michelin were still there until the mid 1980s, although they might still have been had they accepted the offered planning permission in the late 1960s to demolish all but the grade II listed facade, and build a ten storey office block behind it. Michelin instead later moved their office to the US, leaving this wonderful building to become the bar/restaurant/shop it is today. I adore the stained glass windows depicting the 'Michelin Man', and the colourful tiles showing the racing cars of the day. One of the most iconic buildings in London.
6. St Simon Zelotes
7. St Barnabas Church
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2 reviews
8. Sir Hans Sloane Statue
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By Taxidevil - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Anyone who invented drinking chocolate deserves a statue for that alone in my book! However Sir Hans Sloane did much more including founding the British Museum. We came across the very fine statue in Duke of York Square after just leaving the Saatchi Gallery.
9. Sloane Square
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4.0 based on 155 reviews
Located between the districts of Chelsea and Belgravia, this square is synonymous with wealth and the very finest that money can buy.
Reviewed By StephenCr0ss - Dublin, Ireland
Sloane Square always is an atmospheric place with lots of bars and restaurants dotted around the square and off the side streets. Exciting area and Christmas lights look great.
10. James Abbott McNeill Whistler Statue
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4.0 based on 7 reviews
Reviewed By futtock21 - London, United Kingdom
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was perhaps Chelsea’s most famous resident artist famous in particular for his impressionistic landscapes and portraits of society women. Although he died at 74 Cheyne Walk in 1903 it was not until his centenary that plans for a statue in his honour came to fruition following an appeal launched by Chelsea Arts Club supported by Kensington & Chelsea’s then M.P. MIchael Portillo and the then President of the RA Phillip King. Even then its installation was delayed for two years following wrangling with Transport for London which owned the scrap of land on the north side of Battersea Bridge on which it is situated. Cast in bronze it is the work of Nicholas Dimbleby, the brother of David and Jonathan. He said that he wanted it to be impressionistic as if Whistler has made his own self-portrait in clay. Fitting that it overlooks Battersea Bridge the larger previous version of which was one of Whistler’s most celebrated subjects. It is also directly opposite 96 Cheyne Walk where Whistler lived for a while.
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