Fulham is a district within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in southwest London. It's 3.7 miles south-west from Charing Cross, which makes 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 had been a parish in the county of Middlesex. It is identified in the London Plan as one of the 35 major centres in Greater London.
Fulham's history 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 seventeenth and 18th centuries in the region of what is now generally known as Fulham High Street. The subsequent two centuries were identified for energy production, transportation, the automotive industry, food production and laundries.
For the first part of the twentieth century, Fulham remained largely working class with pockets of wealth at the North End, along the top of Lillie Road and New King's Road. Particularly wealthy locations were Parsons Green, Eel Brook Common, South Park plus the location around the Hurlingham Club. The location attracted waves of immigration, and fast changes meant that there was poverty - Charles Dickens and Charles Booth noted this, and there were poorhouses that attracted benefactors.
Today, Fulham is rated among the most pricey parts of London and also the United Kingdom overall. The average sale price of all property in 2007 was £639,973 - and is most likely to be considerably more now.