Chelsea, a western suburb of London, on the N. of the Thames; famous for its hospital for old and disabled soldiers, and the place of residence of sundry literary celebrities, among others Sir Thomas More, Swift, Steele, and Carlyle.
Population (circa 1900) given as 96,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Chelmsford * Cheltenham