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28 | WALKS |turn left. Walk down the Embankmentand look out for the blue plaque onTurner’s Reach House, a number 9,marking the home of George FrederickSamuel Robinson, Marquess of Riponand Viceroy of India. [Sight: GeorgeFrederick Samuel Robinson]. Continuewalking along Chelsea Embankment andturn left into Tite Street.Walk down Tite Street, looking out fora stone plaque on the right marking JohnSinger Sargent’s house at number 31s. Continue down Tite Street, lookingout on the left for blue plaques to LordHaden-Guest at number 38, OscarWilde’s house at number 34 [Sight:Oscar Wilde], and Peter Warlock at number30 d [Sight: Peter Warlock].Keep walking down Tite Street, crossingover Royal Hospital Road andChristchurch Street, until you reachTedworth Square, where the trees are, atthe end of Tite Street. Turn right and seethe blue plaque marking the house onthe corner as Mark Twain’s house. f[Sight: Mark Twain].Walk to the end of the block and turnleft, walking past the green square with iton your left, until you reach the northeastcorner of the square. Turn right ontoSt Leonard’s Terrace, and walk down,crossing straight over the junction withSmith Street and Durham Place, withBurton Court on your right. Look out forthe white house on the left with the blueplaque – Bram Stoker’s house. g [Sight:Bram Stoker]St Leonard’s Terrace was also thehome of Alex Rider in the filmStormbreaker. [Sight: Film locations inFilm.]Turn left into Royal Avenue, which hasa gravel section in the middle with linesof trees on either side. There is a plaqueexplaining the history of Royal Avenue,which was laid out by Sir ChristopherWren, on the side of the house on theright-hand side of the avenue. Further upon the opposite side of Royal Avenue,there is a blue plaque to film directorJoseph Losey at number 29 h.Continue to the end of Royal Avenueto the King’s Road. The McDonald’s onthe left side of the junction betweenRoyal Avenue and the King’s Road usedto be the Chelsea Drugstore j [Sight:Chelsea Drugstore in King’s Road inStreets and Sights] and was a film locationfor A Clockwork Orange.Turn right on the King’s Road and walkup towards Duke of York Square, kwhich is on the right after Jigsaw.Walk into Duke of York Square [Sight:Duke of York Square], where there is astatue of Sir Hans Sloane. [Sight: SirHans Sloane in History.] The SaatchiGallery is on your right as you face thestatue. [Sight: Saatchi Gallery in Art.]You can either finish your walk here,visiting the Saatchi Gallery and exploringDuke of York Square, or make your wayback to the King’s Road and turn right towalk back up to Sloane Square Tubestation,Historic Chelsea andChelsea GreenTime: Part one (50 minutes), part two (20minutes), whole walk (1 hour 25 minutes,including walking between the two parts).Sights include: Cheyne Walk, Old ChurchStreet, Chelsea Old Church and ChelseaGreen.This walk takes you throughsome of Chelsea’s most historicstreets and into Chelsea Green.It is a fairly long walk, so youcan either do the whole walk orsplit it into two parts. The firstpart covers Cheyne Walk andChelsea Old Church, while thesecond includes ChelseaFarmers Market, St Luke’s andChelsea Green.Part oneStart on the King’s Road at the top ofFlood Street, which is opposite the purpleTrafalgar pub and is about 15 minutes’walk from Sloane Square Tube station.Turn left down Flood Street, which isnamed after Luke Thomas Flood, whoperformed many charitable works inChelsea. There is a memorial to him atSt Luke’s Church, which appears in thesecond part of this walk.Walk to the end of Flood Street, lookingdown Robinson Street (on the leftabout three-quarters of the way down) tosee Christ Church, q which is linked toSt Luke’s Church. [Sight: Christ Church]Continue to the end of Flood Streetand turn right into Cheyne Walk [Sight:Cheyne Walk]. This beautiful street hasbeen home to many famous people,although not all of their former homeshave blue plaques – for a detailed list,see Streets and Sights.Walk down Cheyne Walk. At number4, there is a blue plaque marking it asGeorge Eliot’s house w [Sight: GeorgeEliot]. Tudor House, e which was hometo Dante Gabriel Rossetti and AlgernonCharles Swinburne, is at number 16 andhas a blue plaque [Sight: Dante GabrielRossetti].There’s a little passageway calledCheyne Mews on the right just beforethe junction – look out for the plaque onthe wall about Henry VIII’s manor house.You can see down Cheyne Mews to thetrees at the end, and there’s also a littlesign just under the arch, reminding driversto walk their horses.Cheyne Walk is split by a junction,which you need to cross to continuedown Cheyne Walk. Cross over OakleyStreet, towards the Mercedes-Benzshowroom. In front of the showroom is astatue, Boy With a Dolphin r by DavidWynne. Continue past the showroomand continue down Cheyne Walk.When you reach Cheyne Row, whichruns off Cheyne Walk to the right justbefore the Cheyne Walk Brasserie (seeRestaurants), step into the gardens onthe left to see a statue of ThomasCarlyle. t Go back out of the gardensand walk down Cheyne Row to seeCarlyle’s House y at number 24 [Sight:Carlyle’s House]. It is a National Trustproperty and you can visit it at this pointif you wish.Continue to the end of Cheyne Rowand turn left down Upper Cheyne Rowto reach Lawrence Street. There’s a blueplaque at number 16 u noting thisstreet’s past as a site of the famousChelsea China pottery, and that authorTobias Smollett lived in part of the samebuilding.