Fulham is a district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in southwest London. It's 3.7 miles south-west from Charing Cross, making it an Inner London district. It's on the north bank of the River Thames, in between Hammersmith and Kensington and Chelsea, facing Putney and Barnes. Formerly, it was a parish within the county of Middlesex. It's identified in the London Plan as on the list of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Fulham's reputation of industrial enterprise extends back to the 15th century, with its Mill at Millshot on the south side of what is now Fulham Palace Road. There was also a pottery, tapestry-weaving, paper-making and brewing industry in the 17th and 18th centuries in the area of what's now generally known as Fulham High Street. The following two hundred years were known for energy production, transportation, the automotive industry, food production and laundries.
For the first part of the twentieth century, Fulham remained typically working class with pockets of wealth in the North End, along the top of Lillie Road and New King's Road. Especially wealthy places were Parsons Green, Eel Brook Common, South Park as well as the area around the Hurlingham Club. The region attracted waves of immigration, and rapid changes meant that there was poverty - Charles Dickens and Charles Booth noted this, and there were poorhouses that attracted benefactors.
Nowadays, Fulham is rated among the most highly-priced parts of London and also the United Kingdom overall. The typical sale price of all property in 2007 was £639,973 - and is most likely to be significantly more now.
