Chengalpattu

Chengalpattu, formerly known as Chingleput, is located on the GST Road and southeast of Kanchipuram in Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, India. The British Government called this entire area Chingleput; now it is named Kanchipuram District. Chengalpattu is the second biggest town in the locale, after Kanchipuram. Chengalpattu Railway Station, for the most part known as CGL, is one of the significant railroad intersections of the Southern Railway and is a broadly imperative end.

It is the home office of the Chengalpattu Taluk of the locale and is 55 kilometers 34 mi southwest of the state capital, Chennai and 22 km Away from Chennai City Entrance Gateway Chennai Vandalur on the National Highway 45. Chengalpattu Government Hospital is a milestone and the biggest government healing facility in this region. The Hospital has its own therapeutic school. The town has the foremost court of the area, and Dr. Ambedhkar Law College.

The city likewise has an expressions school. Chengalpattu was in the past a capital of the lords of Vijayanagara, after their annihilation by the Deccan sultanates at Battle of Talikota in 1565. In 1639 a nearby representative or nayak, subject to these rulers, allowed a bit of beach front land to the British East India Company where Fort St George currently stands, which turned into the core of the city of Madras.