Chelsea Insider Low - Cadogan

26| WALKS |Sloane Square toKnightsbridgeTime: 45minsSights include: Holy Trinity SloaneSquare, Hans Town, Harrods and HarveyNichols.This walk takes you fromSloane Square Tube station toKnightsbridge Tube station,covering a bit of history andsome of the area’s iconicshops.Start at Sloane Square Tube station.Cross over the road towards Hugo Boss.Continue past Hugo Boss and walk upto the traffic lights. Turn right and crossover to the middle of Sloane Square qitself. [Sight: Sloane Square.] Have a lookat the fountain, which usually has penniesin it where visitors have made awish.Continue over Sloane Square andcross the pedestrian crossing to SloaneStreet, which has Tiffany & Co. on theleft-hand corner, followed by Cartier.Walk up Sloane Street and you will seeHoly Trinity Sloane Square w on yourright, an impressive Arts & Crafts buildingwith striped brickwork. [Sight: Holy TrinityChurch.] Notice the carving over thedoor and the ornate window.Continue up Sloane Street. InsiderCassandra Goad’s shop e is immediatelyafter the church. [Insider:Cassandra Goad.]Just before you reach Jo Malone, turnright into Sloane Terrace to see CadoganHall. r [Sight: Cadogan Hall.] There is acarving over the stage door, a remnantfrom the building’s former life as the FirstChurch of Christ, Scientist.Return to Sloane Street and turn rightto continue up it, past Jo Malone.Turn right down Ellis Street (just afterthe Paule Ka shop). There is a charminglittle row of shops here, including SelinaBlow t and Lulu Guinness. y [Sight:Shops – Selina Blow, Lulu Guinness.]Walk to the end of Ellis Street and turnleft into D’Oyley Street. On the corner ofD’Oyley Street and Cadogan Gate, thereare a couple of white metal bollardsmarked ‘Hans Town 1819’.Turn left into Cadogan Gate, withCadogan Place Gardens on your right, toreturn to Sloane Street. There are someBarclays Cycle Hire bicycles here, knowncolloquially as ‘Boris Bikes’ after Mayorof London Boris Johnson, a prominentsupporter of the scheme.At the end of Cadogan Gate, turn rightand continue up Sloane Street. CadoganPlace Gardens u is one of Chelsea’smany private gardens and is residentsonly,but you can peek over the railingsto see what the people who live hereenjoy.Cross over to the other side of SloaneStreet to walk on the left-hand side ofthe road. After a few minutes’ walk, you’llsee blue plaques to actor Sir HerbertTree and politician Sir Charles Dilke[Sights] on your left, at number 76. iContinue up Sloane Street and you willsee the Cadogan hotel o [Sight:Cadogan hotel] on the left, where OscarWilde was famously arrested.Sloane Street meets Pont Street here.Look down Pont Street to the left to seethe Cadogan Restaurant, formerlyLangtry’s, where there is a blue plaquemarking it as the former home oflegendary actress Lillie Langtry.Look right to see a green hut a onPont Street – one of the charity-fundedcabmen’s shelters, which are scatteredaround London. They have been a foodand respite stop for cabbies since 1875and were conceived by the Earl ofShaftesbury as a way for cab drivers tohave a hot meal and a cup of tea withoutleaving their cabs unattended.Cross over Pont Street to continue upSloane Street. Just before the theEmbassy of Iceland, turn left into HansStreet and walk towards the green treesat the end. This is Hans Place, with a privategarden in the middle and greatexamples of Pont Street Dutch architecture.[Sight: Hans Town, 22 Hans Place,23 Hans Place.] Walk around Hans Placeclockwise. Number 22 s has had aninteresting past, including being a 19thcenturyschool and the headquarters ofthe Irish Treaty delegation in 1921. Atnumber 23 d you can see a blueplaque marking the London home ofJane Austen.Continue around Hans Place until youreach Hans Road. If you look down HansRoad, you can see Harrods, f with itsbeautiful detailing and iconic greencanopies. [Sight: Harrods in Shopping]Visit it if you like, and then to continuethe walk, return to Hans Place via HansRoad.Continue walking around Hans Placeuntil you reach Herbert Crescent. There’sanother white bollard on the corner,marked ‘St Luke Chelsea 1844’. Walkdown Herbert Crescent and head for thebig, white house at the end, which is onHans Crescent, and then turn right downHans Crescent to return to SloaneStreet. You should be able to see Dolce& Gabbana, Valentino and Yves StLaurent on Sloane Street ahead of you.Turn left to continue up Sloane Street,where there are a whole range of designershops, including Chanel, Bulgari,Hermès, Fendi, Versace, Jimmy Chooand Dior.Continue to the end of Sloane Streetuntil you reach the junction withBrompton Road. Harvey Nichols g is onyour right at the end of Sloane Street[Sight: Harvey Nichols in Shopping], withan entrance for Knightsbridge Tube stationjust in front of it.