Traffic Jam in Redcliffe Gardens - geograph

Redcliffe Gardens is a primary road, the A3220 located in the Chelsea area of southwest central

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

, England (postcode SW10). It was a development dated from 1864 to 1878. Redcliffe Gardens runs southeast through Redcliffe Square as part of a

one-way traffic One-way traffic (or uni-directional traffic) is traffic that moves in a single direction. A one-way street is a street either facilitating only one-way traffic, or designed to direct vehicles to move in one direction. One-way streets typicall ...

system centred on

Earl's Court Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the ...

. To the east is

The Boltons The Boltons is a street and garden square of lens shape in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (postcode SW10). The opposing sides of the street face the communal gardens (as two non-semicircu ...

. It runs parallel to the

Finborough Road Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the ...

taking traffic north through a junction with

Lillie Road Lillie Road is a major street in the north of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Named for the Peninsular War veteran, John Scott Lillie, it is a mixed residential and commercial thoroughfare, and is the westerly continuat ...

(left), and

Old Brompton Road Old Brompton Road is a major street in the South Kensington district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. It starts from South Kensington tube station, South Kensington Underground station and runs south-west, through a ma ...

(right), where it continues into Warwick Road, Earl's Court. At its southeast end, Redcliffe Gardens meets

Fulham Road Fulham Road is a street in London, England, which comprises the A304 and part of the A308. Overview Fulham Road ( the A219) runs from Putney Bridge as "Fulham High Street" and then eastward to Fulham Broadway, in the London Borough of Hamm ...

, with Edith Grove directly ahead. To the southwest is

Brompton Cemetery Brompton Cemetery (originally the West of London and Westminster Cemetery) is since 1852 the first (and only) London cemetery to be Crown Estate, Crown property, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington a ...

. The street was previously home to Redcliffe School's prep school. The man "who blew his mind out in a car" in The Beatles lyrics of "A Day in the Life" died in a car accident on 18 December 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens.

Notable residents

This is a list of notable residents and former residents of Redcliffe Gardens: * Sydney Monckton Copeman (1862–1947), at 57 Redcliffe Gardens, Chelsea.

References

Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Kensington {{London-geo-stub