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'Chelsfield' is a place in the London Borough of Bromley in London, England.
The name is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Cillesfelle'', meaning ''land of a man called Cēol''.Mills, A., ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001)
It formed an ancient parish, and later civil parish of , in Kent.Vision of Britain - Chelsfield parish (historic boundaries) It was part of the Bromley Rural District from 1894. The parish included Green Street Green and Pratt's Bottom and stretched as far as Cudham and Orpington. The parish was abolished in 1934 and its former area became part of the Orpington parish and urban district.Vision of Britain - Orpington parish In 1965 it was transferred to Greater London, to form part of the London Borough of Bromley.
Chelsfield railway station is approximately half a mile west of the village, though on the eastern edge of the more modern area of Chelsfield, which was developed from the 1920s onwards.

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