Along with Egmore and Nungambakkam, Chetpet is considered one of the original villages merged by the British to form Chennai.

X, published in 1811, refers to the arrival and settling in of Thomas Andrew Strange, who was to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

This note mentions that Strange met several officials belonging to the Madras administration at the Chief Justice’s garden on the Spur Tank, at 9 o’clock on July 12, 1808.

[5] Today, there is little to no evidence of the existence of a tank as most of it has been silted up and replaced with subways and playgrounds.

Until recently, the waters of Chetpet lake supplied groundwater recharge for the surrounding neighbourhoods.