First documented in 1674, at its largest the farmland was bounded by High Road, Ballards Lane, Long Lane, Squire's Lane. The Cobley family owned it from 1680 to 1902 when it was sold, the buildings demolished and the land developed. the picture source is a local history report from 1927.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Cobley Farm / Fallow Farm
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Dickens at Cobley Farm
Returned from his first trip to America Dickens spent some time here in 1842-...
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Dovehouse Green
Here we summarise the splendid London Gardens Online : Land given by Sir Hans Sloane in 1733 to serve the Chelsea Parish Church of St Luke's and became the King's Road Burial Ground. 1882 a mortu...
2 memorials
Joseph Beck
Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have eschewed the normal form of potted biography and instead have provided 13 bullets points: Chairman of the Clissold Par...
2 memorials
Adrian Brunswick
At the time of his death Brunswick was a landscape architect involved in the creation of Burgess Park, living at Southwood Avenue, N6, single, aged 20-30. See Geoffrey Mills for details. Andrew Be...
1 memorial
Chelsea Physic Garden
Originally established in 1673 as The Apothecaries Garden. The word ‘physic’ in this context means ‘healing’. In 1983 the garden became a registered charity and opened to the public for the first t...
1 memorial
William Morris Company
Originally founded as Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. in 1861 by William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite friends. It produced textiles, wallpapers, stained glass and tapestries, mainly with medieval-i...
1 memorial