Editing Cheyne Walk (section)

==History==
[[File:Cheyne Walk, London, c late 18th-early 19th century. People strolling by the banks of the River Thames in the distance is Chelsea Old Church MoL.jpg|thumb|Cheyne Walk circa 1800.]]
[[File:Maunders Fish Shop, Cheyne Walk, 1887 by Philip Norman.jpg|thumb|Maunders Fish Shop, Cheyne Walk, 1887 by [[Philip Norman (artist)|Philip Norman]]]]
[[File:Turners House, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 1887 by Philip Norman.jpg|thumb|Turners House, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 1887 by [[Philip Norman (artist)|Philip Norman]]]]
Cheyne Walk takes its name from [[William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven|William Cheyne, Viscount Newhaven]] who owned the [[Chelsea Manor|manor of Chelsea]] until 1712.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QbDPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Cheyne+Walk%22+Viscount+Newhaven&pg=PA207 |title=The Gentleman's Magazine |work=google.com|year=1810 }}</ref> Most of the houses were built in the early 18th century. Before the construction in the 19th century of the busy Chelsea Embankment, which now runs in front of it, the houses fronted the River Thames. The most prominent building is [[Carlyle Mansions]]. Chelsea Old Church dates from 1157 and [[Crosby Hall, London|Crosby Hall]] is a reconstructed medieval merchant's house relocated from the City of London in 1910.
[[File:Back of old houses Cheyne Walk 1907 by Philip Norman.jpg|thumb|Back of old houses Cheyne Walk 1907 by [[Philip Norman (artist)|Philip Norman]]]]
In 1951, the [[Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea]] planned to construct a new river wall straightening the river bank west of Battersea Bridge. On the reclaimed land behind the wall a new arterial road and public gardens were to be constructed. Cheyne Walk was to remain unchanged to the north of the new public gardens. The works would have reduced the foreshore and required the removal of the house boat berths.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://find.galegroup.com/iln/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ILN&userGroupName=kccl&tabID=T003&docPage=article&docId=HN3100358819&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 |title=What is to Happen to Chelsea's Famous Cheyne Walk River Front |journal=[[Illustrated London News]] |date=7 July 1951 |page=23 |issue=5855 |access-date= 8 October 2017}}</ref> The works did not take place. In the 1960s, plans for the [[Greater London Council]]'s [[London Ringways#Ringway 1|London Motorway Box]] project would have seen the [[West Cross Route]], a motorway standard elevated road, constructed from [[Battersea]] to [[Harlesden]] through [[Earl's Court]]. A spur road would have been constructed from the motorway to the junction of Cheyne Walk and Lots Road.{{cn|date=September 2024}} The plans were abandoned because of the cost and opposition from local communities.

Brunel House at 105-106 Cheyne Walk was designed by Frederick MacManus and Partners Architects in the 1950s and was awarded the RIBA London Architecture Bronze Medal for 1957.<ref>Frederick MacManus at the Irish Architectural Archive</Ref>

In 1972, number 96 Cheyne Walk, the then home of [[Philip Woodfield]], a British civil servant, was the site of a top secret meeting between the British government and the leadership of the [[Provisional IRA]] aimed at ending the violence in [[Northern Ireland]]. The talks were inconclusive and the violence soon started again.