Chelmsford (redirected from Chelmsford, Essex)

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.

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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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Chelmsford

Cathedral of Saint Mary, Chelmsford, England.

(credit: The J. Allan Cash Photolibrary)

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.

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Chelmsford

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