Pimlico Road is a combination of roads formerly called Grosvenor Row and Queen Street.
The road from Westminster to Chelsea village was carried over the boundary by a stone bridge, documented from 1587 and it is probably the stone bridge which the vestry paid to mend in 1682.
By the early 19th century a single-arch brick bridge in Grosvenor Row (later Pimlico Road) had replaced the stone one.
There was an inn in Grosvenor Row called the "The Three Compasses," well known as a starting-point for the Pimlico omnibuses. It was generally known as the "Goat and Compasses"—possibly a corruption of the text, "God encompasseth us".
The Chelsea Bun House in Grosvenor Row was the home of the Chelsea Bun but also had a museum of curiosities. The Bun House was run by several members of a family named Hand. The often quoted figure of a quarter of a million buns sold on Good Friday 1829 is probably apocryphal but the buns themselves “a zephyr in taste, fragrant as honey” sound a little more interesting than the modern version.
Grosvenor Row and Queen Street had combined to become Pimlico Road by 1881
