Chelsea

Chelsea, England: see Kensington and Chelsea.

Chelsea, city (1990 pop. 28,710), Suffolk co., E Mass., an industrial suburb of Boston; settled 1624, inc. as a town 1739, as a city 1857. It has made printed goods, rubber, plastics, electrical machinery, shoes, and paint. Oil storage tanks line Chelsea Creek and the Mystic River. At the battle of Chelsea Creek (1775), Revolutionary forces made one of their first captures of a British ship. During the siege of Boston (1775-76), part of Washington's army was stationed here. In recent decades Chelsea has suffered from major fires, job loss, and municipal corruption.

(born Nov. 18, 1897, London, Eng.—died July 13, 1974, London) British physicist. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1921 and spent 10 years at the Cavendish Laboratory, where he developed the Wilson cloud chamber into an instrument for the study of cosmic radiation. He was awarded a 1948 Nobel Prize for his discoveries and was made a life peer in 1969.

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The name Chelsea may refer to one of several locations, notably in London and New York City, and some organisations associated with those places. It is also a moderately common given name, for which there are several alternative spellings, including Chelsee, Chelsey, Chelsi, Chelsie and Chelsy.

The name originally derives from the Old English for chalk wharf, applied descriptively to the neighbourhood of Chelsea in London. The successive fame of the name in different generations such as the Chelsea porcelain in the 18th century, Swinging Chelsea in the 1960s, and today's Chelsea Football Club help to explain the spread of the name.

Places

• Chelsea, Dutchess County, New York, a small town on the Hudson River
• Chelsea, London, an area in south-west London
• Chelsea, Manhattan, a neighborhood on the West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City
• Chelsea, Vermont, in the United States
• Chelsea, Quebec is a small town in Quebec
• Chelsea, Victoria, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne

People

• Chelsey Bell, curler
• Chelsea Bernasconi, martial artist
• Chelsea Brown, actress
• Chelsea Brummet, actress
• Chelsea Chen, organist
• Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton
• Chelsea Cooley, holder of Miss USA title
• Chelsy Davy, ex-girlfriend of Prince Harry
• Chelsea Field, actress
• Chelsea Georgeson, world title holding surfer
• Chelsea Handler, comedian
• Chelsee Healey, actress
• Chelsea Hobbs, actress
• Chelsea Korka, pop singer
• Chelsea Newton, basketball player
• Chelsea Noble, actress
• Chelsea Peretti, writer and comedian
• Chelsea Quealey, jazz trumpeter
• Chelsi Smith, beauty queen
• Chelsea Staub, actress and singer
• Chelsea Tavares, actress
• Chelsea Wilson, actress
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, writer

Organisations

• Chelsea College of Art and Design, an art and design college in London, UK
• Chelsea porcelain factory, a now defunct, but still famous porcelain factory in London, UK
• Hotel Chelsea, a hotel in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York, United States
• Chelsea Piers, a sports and entertainment complex in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York, United States
• Chelsea Sugar Refinery, an historical factory and landmark in Birkenhead, New Zealand
• Royal Hospital Chelsea, home for former soldiers in London, UK
• Chelsea pensioner, occupant of the above home
• Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, a former borough in London

Culture

Events

• Chelsea Flower Show, annual event organised by the Royal Horticultural Society at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK

Film and Television

• Chelsea Benson, a character from the US soap opera Days of our Lives
• Chelsea Daniels, a character from the US sitcom That's So Raven
• Chelsea Fox, a character from the UK soap opera East Enders
• Chelsea Girls, a 1966 film
• Chelsea Lately, a US TV talk show starring Chelsea Handler

Music

• "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea", a song by Elvis Costello from his album, This Year's Model
• "Chelsea", a song by Mest
• "Chelsea", a song by Counting Crows from their album, Across a Wire: Live in New York City
• "Chelsea Dagger", a song by The Fratellis
• "Chelsea Girl", a song from the Simple Minds album Life In a Day
• Chelsea Girl (album), an album by Nico
• "Chelsea Hotel", a song by Dan Bern.
• "Chelsea Hotel #2", a song by Leonard Cohen
• "Chelsea Morning", a song written by Joni Mitchell and recorded by Judy Collins and others
• "Chelsea Rodgers", single from Prince's Planet Earth album
• Chelsea (band), a punk band
• "Chelsea" (STEFY song), a song by STEFY

Printed media

• Chelsea Boys, a comic strip
• Chelsea (magazine), a small literary magazine since 1958 in New York City

Sport

• Chelsea F.C., a premier league association football club in London, UK
• Chelsea Hajduk Soccer Club, an association football club in Melbourne, Australia
• Chelsea L.F.C., a women's association football club associated with Chelsea F.C.

Other

• The Chelsea bun, a cake
• Chelsea (beverage), a carbonated, low-alcohol beverage
• Chelsea chic
• Chelsea, a North American slang term for a particular hairstyle popular with female skinheads; known as a feathercut in the United Kingdom
• Chelsea tube station, a proposed railway station in London, UK