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Chelmsford District

Chelmsford

Chelmsford is largely a commercial city that is the county town of , . Chelmsford has a vibrant nightlife scene with many pubs, late night bars and restaurant establishments in the city centre area.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Chelmsford Cathedral and County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford.

Church
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, formally titled the Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, St Peter and St Cedd, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Chelmsford, , England, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, St Peter and St Cedd.

Stadium
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The County Ground in Chelmsford, , has been the official home ground of Essex County Cricket Club since 1967. It has been used for first-class cricket since 1925 and List A matches since 1969.

Railway station
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is a stop on the Great Eastern Main Line in the , serving the city of Chelmsford, . It lies 29 miles 60 chains down the line from , and is situated between to the west and to the east.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moulsham.

Suburb
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb of Chelmsford, Essex, England. It is located to the south of the city centre and has two distinct areas: Old and Lodge.

Chelmsford

Latitude
51.7345° or 51° 44′ 4″ north
Longitude
0.4731° or 0° 28′ 23″ east
Population
176,000
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CFD
Open location code
9F32PFMF+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21025675
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2653266
Wiki­data ID
Q210985
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chelmsford” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chelmsford”
  • Amharic: “ቸልምስፎርድ”
  • Arabic: “تشيلمسفورد”
  • Aragonese: “Chelmsford”
  • Armenian: “Չելմսֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Chelmsford”
  • Basque: “Chelmsford”
  • Belarusian: “Чэлмзфард”
  • Belarusian: “Чэлмсфард”
  • Bengali: “চেমসফোর্ড”
  • Breton: “Chelmsford”
  • Bulgarian: “Челмсфорд”
  • Catalan: “Chelmsford”
  • Cebuano: “Chelmsford (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Chelmsford”
  • Chinese: “切姆斯福德”
  • Chinese: “切尔姆斯福德”
  • Chinese: “切爾姆斯福德”
  • Chinese: “湛士福”
  • Chinese: “辰斯福”
  • Czech: “Chelmsford”
  • Danish: “Chelmsford”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Chelmsford”
  • Dutch: “Chelmsford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيلمسفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Chelmsford”
  • Finnish: “Chelmsford”
  • French: “Chelmsford”
  • Galician: “Chelmsford”
  • German: “Chelmsford”
  • Gothic: “𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌼𐍃𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐍃”
  • Greek: “Τσέλμσφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “ચેલમ્સફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’למספורד”
  • Hebrew: “צלמספורד”
  • Hindi: “चेम्सफोर्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Chelmsford”
  • Icelandic: “Chelmsford”
  • Indonesian: “Chelmsford”
  • Irish: “Chelmsford”
  • Italian: “Chelmsford”
  • Japanese: “チェルムスフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಲ್ಮ್ಸ್ ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಲ್ಮ್ಸ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “첼름스퍼드”
  • Kurdish: “Chelmsford”
  • Ladin: “Chelmsford”
  • Latin: “Caesaromagus”
  • Latvian: “Čelmsforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Čelmsfordas”
  • Lithuanian: “Chelmsford”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chelmsford”
  • Macedonian: “Челмсфорд”
  • Malay: “Chelmsford”
  • Marathi: “चेम्सफोर्ड”
  • Marathi: “चेल्‍म्‍सफर्ड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chelmsford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chelmsford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chelmsford i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chelmsford i Essex”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chelmsford”
  • Norwegian: “Chelmsford”
  • Ossetian: “Челмсфорд”
  • Persian: “چلمزفورد”
  • Polish: “Chelmsford”
  • Portuguese: “Chelmsford”
  • Quechua: “Chelmsford”
  • Romanian: “Chelmsford”
  • Russian: “Челмсфорд”
  • Samogitian: “Čelmsfuords”
  • Scots: “Chelmsford”
  • Serbian: “Čelmsford”
  • Serbian: “Chelmsford”
  • Serbian: “Челмсфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chelmsford”
  • Sinhala: “චෙල්ම්ස්ෆොර්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Chelmsford”
  • Slovenian: “Chelmsford”
  • Spanish: “Chelmsford”
  • Swedish: “Chelmsford”
  • Tamil: “செம்ஸபோர்டு”
  • Tamil: “செலம்ஸபோர்ட”
  • Tatar: “Челмсфорд”
  • Telugu: “చెల్మ్స్ఫోర్డ్”
  • Thai: “เชล์มสฟอร์ด”
  • Turkish: “Chelmesford”
  • Turkish: “Chelmsford”
  • Ukrainian: “Челмсфорд”
  • Urdu: “چلمسفورڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Chelmsford”
  • Volapük: “Chelmsford”
  • Welsh: “Chelmsford”
  • Yue Chinese: “湛士福”
  • “Čelmsfuords”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Chelmsford”. Photo: Solipsia, CC BY-SA 3.0.