The former Lillie Bridge sports ground (situated near to where Stamford Bridge stadium is today) played host to the first ever amateur boxing matches in 1867. Cups for this were supplied by the Marquess of Queensberry, which is why the rules in boxing are called the Queensberry Rules.
The Lillie Bridge Grounds was the venue where British Amateur Athletics were born.
Founded in 1879, Fulham FC is the oldest professional football team in London
The first British-grown examples of Tamarisk, Acacia, Mahogany and Maple trees were all grown in the gardens of
Fulham Palace , summer residence of the Bishops of London. They were grown by Bishop Henry Compton (who held the post from 1675 to 1713), a noted botanist. One of his predecessors grew grapes there, some of which
Elizabeth I ate.
Britains 1st speed bumps were installed on Linver Rd in Fulham in 1984.
Fulham, or in its earliest form "Fulanhamme", is thought to have signified the place either "place of fowls" or "of mud"
Approximately 5,000 years ago
Neolithic people were living by the riverside and in other parts of the area.
Geoffrey de Havilland, aviation pioneer, built his first aeroplane at his workshop in Bothwell Street, Fulham in 1909
The latest edition (2008) of the
Chambers Dictionary defines a
fulham as 'a die loaded at the corner to ensure that certain numbers are thrown
The Hurlingham club is the historic home of
polo in the United Kingdom and of the world governing body of polo.
Fulham Palace, the seat of the Bishops of London, has the part-excavated longest
moat in England.
