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, rendering it an Inner London district. It is on the north bank of the River Thames, in between Hammersmith and Kensington and Chelsea, facing Putney and Barnes. Formerly, it was a parish inside the county of Middlesex. It's identified in the London Plan as among 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's now Fulham Palace Road. There was also a pottery, tapestry-weaving, paper-making and brewing industry in the 17th and 18th centuries in the region of what is now generally known as Fulham High Street. The subsequent two centuries were identified for power 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 at the North End, along the top of Lillie Road and New King's Road. Particularly rich areas were Parsons Green, Eel Brook Common, South Park plus the area surrounding the Hurlingham Club. The area 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.
Nowadays, Fulham is rated as one of the most pricey parts of London and the UK overall. The typical sale price of all property in 2007 was £639,973 - and is most likely to be a lot more now.