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Cheyne Walk is a historic road in Chelsea, London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It runs parallel with the River Thames. Before the construction of Chelsea Embankment reduced the width of the Thames here, it fronted the river along its whole length.

At its western end, Cheyne Walk meets Cremorne Road end on at the junction with Lots Road. The Walk runs alongside the River Thames until Battersea Bridge where, for a short distance, it is replaced by Chelsea Embankment with part of its former alignment being occupied by Ropers Gardens. East of Old Church Street and Chelsea Old Church, the Walk runs along the north side of Albert Bridge Gardens and Chelsea Embankment Gardens parallel with Chelsea Embankment. At the north end of Albert Bridge, the Walk merges with Chelsea Embankment. The Walk ends at Royal Hospital Road. At the western end between Lots Road and Battersea Bridge is a collection of residential houseboats that have been in situ since the 1930s. At the eastern end is the Chelsea Physic Garden with its cedars. It marks the boundary of the, now withdrawn, extended London Congestion Charge Zone. The section west of Battersea Bridge forms part of the A3220 road.

Sâr Dubnotal (1909–1910) owned a house in Cheyne Walk. Thomas Carnacki (1910–1912), a fictional occult detective created by English fantasy writer William Hope Hodgson, lived in a flat at 472 Cheyne Walk. Katharine Hilbery, the protagonist of Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day (1919), lives on Cheyne Walk with her parents. In Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love, (1945) the heroine Linda Radlett lives in a house on Cheyne Walk before and during the Second World War. The climax of The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles is set at number 16, in the Rossetti household. In Iris Murdoch's A Word Child (1975), Gunnar Jopling and his second wife, Lady Kitty, lived here. In Roald Dahl's My Uncle Oswald (1979), the protagonist lives with his parents in Cheyne Walk at the start of the story. In Jeffrey Archer's 1984 British political novel First Among Equals, the MP Andrew Fraser lived in Cheyne Walk. Margaret Prior, the protagonist of Sarah Waters' Affinity (1999), lives on Cheyne Walk. Richard Bolitho's mistress Lady Catherine Somervell kept a house on Cheyne Walk as mentioned in Alexander Kent's novel, The Darkening Sea (1993). In Timothy Findley's Pilgrim (2000), the eponymous main character is a former resident of Cheyne Walk. In Stormbreaker (2000), Alex Rider directs his cab to his home in Cheyne Walk, London. In Daniel Silva's The Defector (2009), the Russian billionaire Viktor Orlov lives at number 43. In Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices series, werewolf Woolsey Scott lives at No. 16. In Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley series, Simon and Deborah St James live and work on Cheyne Walk. Sean Dillon, a recurring character from author Jack Higgins, has a home in Cheyne Walk. Lady Celia Lytton and members of her family live in a house on Cheyne Walk for more than half a century in Penny Vincenzi's trilogy, The Spoils of Time. In Lisa Jewell's The Family Upstairs, the plot centres around a baby found alongside three dead bodies in 16 Cheyne Walk, and the mystery of what happened to the other inhabitants of the house. Penelope Widmore's street address on the television show Lost, in the year 1996, was 423 Cheyne Walk. The main characters of Mariana Enríquez's novel Our share of night, Juan and Rosario, live for a while on Cheyne Walk (number unspecified), while Juan's physician and bodyguards live at number 4.