North End was, until the last quarter of the 19th-century, a scattered hamlet among the fields and market gardens, between

Counter's Creek Counter's Creek, ending in Chelsea Creek, the lowest part of which still exists, was a stream that flowed from Kensal Green, by North Kensington and flowed south into the River Thames on the Tideway at Sands End, Fulham. Its remaining open w ...

and Walham Green in the Parish of

Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Chelsea ...

in the

County of Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the Thames in the south, the Lea to the east and the Colne to the west. A line of hi ...

. In connection with the development of the

Kensington Canal The Kensington Canal was a canal, about two miles long, opened in 1828 in London from the River Thames on the parish boundary between Chelsea and Fulham, along the line of Counter's Creek, to a basin near Warwick Road in Kensington. It had one l ...

on the northern boundary of Fulham parish,

Sir John Scott Lillie Sir John Scott Lillie (1790 – 29 June 1868) was an Anglo-Irish decorated officer of the British Army and Portuguese Army who fought in the Peninsular War (1808–1814). He was a landowner, entrepreneur and inventor. He was Deputy Lieute ...

built the 'North End Brewery' complex in 1832. The attached public house was called the 'Lillie Arms' (today's ''Lillie Langtry'' in Lillie Road, misnamed later for an alleged local connection with the Jersey socialite) and had a frontage of 140 feet along the newly laid out road running from

Lillie Bridge (Fulham) Lillie Bridge is a road bridge that links Old Brompton Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with Lillie Road in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. It crosses two railways: the West London Line on the London Overground ...

to North End Lane. According to Féret the landlady was a Miss Goslin. All that remains of North End in memory is the

North End Road, Fulham North End Road is an ancient thoroughfare linking the former hamlet of North End, renamed " West Kensington", with the former village of Walham Green, renamed "Fulham Broadway" in Fulham in London. It starts at Hammersmith Road (the A315), ...

. In the 1880s, the area became known as " West Kensington", at the request of developers Gibbs and Flew who were having trouble selling their newly built houses in a Fulham backwater.

West Kensington tube station West Kensington is a London Underground District line station in West Kensington. It is located on North End Road (B317) close to its junction with West Cromwell Road/Talgarth Road ( A4). The station is between Earl's Court and Barons Cour ...

on the Metropolitan District Railway, was originally called 'Fulham - North End'.

Notable residents

Samuel Richardson Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: '' Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'' (1740), '' Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady'' (1748) and '' The Histo ...

Samuel Foote Samuel Foote (January 1720 – 21 October 1777) was a Cornish dramatist, actor and Actor-manager, theatre manager. He was known for his comedic acting and writing, and for turning the loss of a leg in a riding accident in 1766 to comedic oppor ...

Francesco Bartolozzi __NOTOC__ Francesco Bartolozzi (21 September 1727 – 7 March 1815) was an Italian engraver, whose most productive period was spent in London. He is noted for popularizing the "crayon" method of engraving. Early life Bartolozzi was born in Flo ...

* Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner * Thomas Elliot Harrison *

Edmund Kean Edmund Kean (4 November 178715 May 1833) was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris. He was known for his short stature, tumultuous personal life, and controversial div ...

'Fulham: Walham Green and North End', in Old and New London: Volume 6, (London, 1878) pp. 521-528. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp521-528 ccessed 27 April 2024/ref> *

* Arthur Lillie *

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August 183317 June 1898) was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding part ...

* Georgiana Burne-Jones * William Hurlstone

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