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Chelmsford

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Chelmsford, city, England

Chelmsford, city (1991 pop. 91,109), county seat of Essex, SE England. It is a market center (especially for cattle) for the surrounding agricultural district. Manufactures include electrical equipment, radios, ball bearings, rope, and agricultural equipment. Other industries are milling and malting. A Roman town on this site was excavated in 1849. The first wireless telegraph broadcasting service began there in 1920.

Chelmsford, town, United States

Chelmsford (chĕmz`fərd, chĕlmz`–), town (1990 pop. 32,383), Middlesex co., NE Mass.; inc. 1655. Once a lumber and textile town, Chelmsford is largely residential with light industries.

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Cathedral of Saint Mary, Chelmsford, England.
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Town and borough (pop., 2001: 157,053), county seat of Essex, southeastern England. It lies on the northeastern periphery of Greater London. There are remains of the Roman settlement of Caesaromagus. In 1227 Chelmsford became the regular seat of the county judicial gatherings known as assizes. The world's first wireless telegraph service was transmitted in 1920 from the local premises of Guglielmo Marconi's company. Light engineering, especially electronics, is important to the economy.

Chelmsford
a city in SE England, administrative centre of Essex: electronics, retail; university (1992). Pop.: 99 962 (2001)


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On Wednesday the three fugitives--they had passed the night in a field of unripe wheat--reached Chelmsford, and there a body of the inhabitants, calling itself the Committee of Public Supply, seized the pony as provisions, and would give nothing in exchange for it but the promise of a share in it the next day.
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After Little John and Will Scarlet and Allan a Dale had left the highway near garnet, they traveled toward the eastward, without stopping, as long as their legs could carry them, until they came to Chelmsford, in Essex.
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