Mossop Street, SW3

Mossop Street was once called Green Lettuce Lane.

Admiral Codrington, 17 Mossop Street, Chelsea
Credit: National Brewery Heritage Trust

Much of this area of Chelsea was formerly market gardens, owned by various wealthy landowners from around the country.

The advent of the railways spurred growth westwards from London, with landowners granting leases to builders and gardeners such as John Bull, who, from 1817 to 1839 built over 20 or so houses on a curved street now known as Bull’s Gardens. In 1839 William Davies, another market gardener, took over Bull’s lease of an area of market gardens, known as Green Lettuce Gardens.

The area to the south of Hans Square was occupied by a large house, The Pavilion, the gardens of which were laid out by Capability Brown.

Green Lettuce Lane was renamed to become Green Street around 1830 and then Mossop Street. The lane skirted Green Lettuce Gardens and a cricket ground. It connected The Pavilion to Draycott Avenue. In 1836 Green Lettuce Lane continued as a private road after the junction with Princes Street, giving access to the grounds of The Pavilion. This latter section became Milner Street.

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Bywater Street, SW3 Bywater Street was built in the 1850s on the site of a nursery (Chelsea)

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Cadogan Gardens, SW1X Cadogan Gardens is a complicated series of interlinked streets (Sloane Square)

Cadogan Gardens, SW1X

Cadogan Gate, SW1X Cadogan Gate is a transition between the busy, commercial Sloane Street and the quieter, residential, red brick terraces of Cadogan Square (Chelsea)

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Cadogan House, SW1X Cadogan House is a block on Sloane Street (Belgravia)

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Chipperfield House, SW3 Chipperfield House is a block on Ixworth Place (Chelsea)

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Colebrook Court, SW3 Colebrook Court is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

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Coulson Street, SW3

Cranmer Court, SW3 Cranmer Court, one of the largest blocks of flats in London, was built 1934-5 (Chelsea)

Cranmer Court, SW3

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Cromwell Gardens, SW7 Cromwell Gardens is a short but major road in South Kensington. It joins the Cromwell Road at the junction with Exhibition Road to the west with the Brompton Road to the east (South Kensington)

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Culford Gardens, SW3 Culford Gardens is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Culford Gardens, SW3

Curran House, SW3 Curran House is a block on Elystan Street (Chelsea)

Curran House, SW3

Danube Street, E14 Danube Street was renamed in 1937 (Chelsea)

Danube Street, E14

Delmerend House, SW3 Delmerend House is a block on Ixworth Place (Chelsea)

Delmerend House, SW3

Denyer Street, SW3 Denyer Street runs between Draycott Avenue and Milner Street (Chelsea)

Denyer Street, SW3

Donne Place, SW3 Donne Place is a road in the SW3 postcode area (Chelsea)

Donne Place, SW3

Dorchester Court, SW1X Dorchester Court is a building on Sloane Street (Chelsea)

Dorchester Court, SW1X

Dove House, SW3 Dove House can be found on Dovehouse Street (Chelsea)

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Draycott Avenue, SW3 Draycott Avenue is a notable shopping street (Chelsea)

Draycott Avenue, SW3

Draycott Place, SW3 The first section of Draycott Place dates from the 1820s (Chelsea)

Draycott Place, SW3

Draycott Terrace, SW3 Draycott Terrace is a road in the SW3 postcode area (Chelsea)

Draycott Terrace, SW3

Duke Of York Square, SW3 Duke Of York Square is a shopping and retail development (Chelsea)

Duke Of York Square, SW3

Durley House, SW1X Durley House is a block on Sloane Street (Belgravia)

Durley House, SW1X

Egerton Crescent, SW3 Egerton Crescent was described in 2013 as "the most expensive street in Britain" (Chelsea)

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Egerton Gardens Mews, SW3 Egerton Gardens Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Knightsbridge)

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Egerton Gardens, SW3 Egerton Gardens is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

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Egerton Terrace, SW3 Egerton Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

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Elystan Place, SW3 Elystan Place is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Elystan Place, SW3

Elystan Street, SW3 Elystan Street - from Elystan Glodrydd, founder of the fourth Royal Tribe of Wales, - said to be an early ancestor of Lord Cadogan (Chelsea)

Elystan Street, SW3

End House, SW3 End House is a block on Rosemoor Street (Chelsea)

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First Street, SW3 First Street was so-named as it was the first street to be laid out on the Hasker estate (Chelsea)

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Flamstead House, SW3 Flamstead House is a block on Cale Street (Chelsea)

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Fordie House, SW1X Fordie House is sited on Sloane Street (Chelsea)

Fordie House, SW1X

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Gadebridge House, SW3 Gadebridge House is a block on Cale Street (Chelsea)

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Glynde Mews, SW3 Glynde Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

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Godfrey Street, SW3 Godfrey Street - probably from Walter Godfrey, an important Chelsea landowner in the eighteenth century (Chelsea)

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Green Lettuce Lane, SW3 Green Lettuce Lane was a country lane in Chelsea (Chelsea)

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Grosvenor Court, SW1X Grosvenor Court is a block on Sloane Street (Belgravia)

Grosvenor Court, SW1X

Guinness Court, SW3 Guinness Court is a building on Guinness Court (Chelsea)

Guinness Court, SW3

Guthrie Street, SW3 Guthrie Street is a cul-de-sac leasing off Cale Street (Chelsea)

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Hammerfield House, SW3 Hammerfield House is a block on Cale Street (Chelsea)

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Hans Street, SW1X Hans Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)

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Hasker Street, SW3 Hasker Street was built on land belonging to the Rev. G.H. Hasker (Chelsea)

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Icknield House, SW3 Icknield House is a block on Cale Street (Chelsea)

Icknield House, SW3

Ives Street, SW3 Ives Street dates from the 1820s (Chelsea)

Ives Street, SW3

Ixworth Place, SW3 Ixworth Place is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Ixworth Place, SW3

Jenningsbury House, SW3 Jenningsbury House is a block on Cale Street (Chelsea)

Jenningsbury House, SW3

Keppel House, SW3 Keppel House is a block on Fulham Road (South Kensington)

Keppel House, SW3

Kimbolton Row, SW3 Kimbolton Row is a road in the SW3 postcode area (Chelsea)

Kimbolton Row, SW3

Kings Road, SW1W Kings Road is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Sloane Square)

Kings Road, SW1W

Kingsmill House, SW3 Kingsmill House can be found on Cale Street (Chelsea)

Kingsmill House, SW3

Lennox Gardens Mews, SW1X Lennox Gardens Mews was built behind Lennox Gardens from 1882 onwards (Chelsea)

Lennox Gardens Mews, SW1X

Lennox Gardens, SW1X Named after Lord William Lennox, Lennox Gardens skirts the central gardens of the same name (Chelsea)

Lennox Gardens, SW1X

Lewis Estate, SW3 Commercial area (Chelsea)

Lewis Estate, SW3

Lincoln Street, SW3 Authority to lay down Lincoln Street was given in the 1845 Chelsea Improvement Act (Chelsea)

Lincoln Street, SW3

Lower Stewart’s Grove, SW3 Lower Stewart’s Grove was eventually absorbed into Cale Street (Chelsea)

Lower Stewart’s Grove, SW3

Lucan Place, SW3 Lucan Place is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Lucan Place, SW3

Malvern Court, SW7 Malvern Court is a block on Old Brompton Road (South Kensington)

Malvern Court, SW7

Margaretha House, SW3 Margaretha House is a block on Draycott Place (Chelsea)

Margaretha House, SW3

Markham Square, SW3 Markham Square is a garden square laid out in 1836 (Chelsea)

Markham Square, SW3

Markham Street, SW3 Pulham Markham Evans was the last owner of Box Farm which formerly stood on this site (Chelsea)

Markham Street, SW3

Marlborough Street, SW3 Marlborough Street is a road in the SW3 postcode area (Chelsea)

Marlborough Street, SW3

Maylands House, SW3 Maylands House is a block on Cale Street (Chelsea)

Maylands House, SW3

Milner Street, SW3 Milner Street runs roughly west from Cadogan Square, crossing Ovington Street, Lennox Gardens and Clabon Mews (Chelsea)

Milner Street, SW3

Moore Street, SW3 Moore Street was named after Richard Moore of Hampton Court Palace, a former landowner (Chelsea)

Moore Street, SW3

Mossop Street, SW3 Mossop Street was once called Green Lettuce Lane (Chelsea)

Mossop Street, SW3

Nettleden House, SW3 Nettleden House stands on Marlborough Road (Chelsea)

Nettleden House, SW3

North Terrace, SW3 North Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

North Terrace, SW3

Oakley House, SW1X Oakley House is a building on Sloane Street (Belgravia)

Oakley House, SW1X

Oatwell House, SW3 Oatwell House is sited on Marlborough Street (Chelsea)

Oatwell House, SW3

Orford House, SW3 Orford House is a block on Rawlings Street (Chelsea)

Orford House, SW3

Ovington Gardens, SW3 Ovington Gardens is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Ovington Gardens, SW3

Ovington Square, SW3 Ovington Square is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Ovington Square, SW3

Ovington Street, SW3 Ovington Street is one of the widest and most imposing streets in Chelsea (Chelsea)

Ovington Street, SW3

Pavilion Road, SW1X Pavilion Road is London’s longest mews and runs parallel to Sloane Street (Chelsea)

Pavilion Road, SW1X

Pelham Court, SW3 Pelham Court is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Pelham Court, SW3

Pelham Crescent, SW7 Henry Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester was a former trustee of the Smith’s Charity Estate, upon which the road was built (South Kensington)

Pelham Crescent, SW7

Pelham Place, SW7 Pelham Place is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area (South Kensington)

Pelham Place, SW7

Pelham Street, SW3 Pelham Street - as Pelham Road - originated in the 1830s (South Kensington)

Pelham Street, SW3

Petyward, SW3 Petyward is a road in the SW3 postcode area (Chelsea)

Petyward, SW3

Pond House, SW3 Residential block (Chelsea)

Pond House, SW3

Pond Place, SW3 A large pond once existed on the site now occupied by Onslow Dwellings (Chelsea)

Pond Place, SW3

Pont Street Mews, SW1X This is a street in the SW1X postcode area (Chelsea)

Pont Street Mews, SW1X

Rawlings Street, SW3 Rawlings Street, formerly Princes Street was renamed in 1873 after Charles Rawlings who instituted a Chelsea Charity (Chelsea)

Rawlings Street, SW3

Rich Lane, SW3 Rich Lane is a road in the SW5 postcode area (Chelsea)

Rich Lane, SW3

Richards Place, SW3 Richards Place is a location in London (Chelsea)

Richards Place, SW3

Rosemoor Street, SW3 Rosemoor Street was at first called Orford Terrace and then Little Orford Street (Chelsea)

Rosemoor Street, SW3

Samuel Lewis Trust Dwellings, SW3 Samuel Lewis Trust Dwellings is a location in London (Chelsea)

Samuel Lewis Trust Dwellings, SW3

Sloane Avenue, SW3 Sloane Avenue runs roughly north-west to south-east (Chelsea)

Sloane Avenue, SW3

Sloane House, SW1X Sloane House is located on Sloane Street (Belgravia)

Sloane House, SW1X

South House, SW3 South House is a block on Rosemoor Street (Chelsea)

South House, SW3

South Street, SW1W South Street was renamed Cadogan Gardens in 1869 (Chelsea)

South Street, SW1W

South Terrace, SW7 South Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area (South Kensington)

South Terrace, SW7

Sprimont Place, SW3 Sprimont Place is a road in the SW3 postcode area (Chelsea)

Sprimont Place, SW3

St Catherine’s Mews, SW3 St Catherine’s Mews is a road in the SW3 postcode area (Chelsea)

St Catherine’s Mews, SW3

St Saviours House, SW3 St Saviours House is a block on Walton Street (Chelsea)

St Saviours House, SW3

Stewart’s Grove, SW3 Named after William Stewart, an auctioneer of Piccadilly, who began to build here on land leased from Lord Cadogan. (Chelsea)

Stewart’s Grove, SW3

Sydney Close, SW7 Sydney Close is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Sydney Close, SW7

Sydney Mews, SW3 Sydney Mews lies in an area to the north of the Brompton Road (Chelsea)

Sydney Mews, SW3

Sydney Place, SW7 Sydney Place is one of the streets of London in the SW7 postal area (South Kensington)

Sydney Place, SW7

Symons Street, SW3 Symons Street is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Symons Street, SW3

The Gateways, SW3 The Gateways is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

The Gateways, SW3

Thurloe Close, SW3 John Thurloe owned the land on which the mews was later built, and was said to have been given it by Oliver Cromwell for services during the Commonwealth (South Kensington)

Thurloe Close, SW3

Thurloe Place, SW7 Thurloe Place is named after John Thurloe, a secretary to the council of state during the Oliver Cromwell Commonwealth. (South Kensington)

Thurloe Place, SW7

Thurloe Square, SW7 Thurloe Square is a traditional garden square in South Kensington (South Kensington)

Thurloe Square, SW7

Thurloe Street, SW7 Thurloe Street is named for John Thurloe, said to have been given this land by Oliver Cromwell for services during the Commonwealth (South Kensington)

Thurloe Street, SW7

Tryon Street, SW3 Tryon Street was originally a footpath known locally as Butterfly Alley which separated two famous nurseries: John Colville and Thomas Davey. (Chelsea)

Tryon Street, SW3

Turks Row, SW3 Turks Row is a location in London (Chelsea)

Turks Row, SW3

Walpole Street, SW3 Walpole Street is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Walpole Street, SW3

Walton Street, SW1X Walton Street is a major road of Chelsea (Chelsea)

Walton Street, SW1X

West House, SW3 West House is a block on Rosemoor Street (Chelsea)

West House, SW3

Whitehead’s Grove, SW3 Whitehead’s Grove was named after a builder, lessee of part of Chelsea Common in 1810 (Chelsea)

Whitehead’s Grove, SW3

Wiltshire Close, SW3 Wiltshire Close is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Wiltshire Close, SW3

Yeoman’s Row, SW3 Yeomans Row is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area (Chelsea)

Yeoman’s Row, SW3

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