Qualla: Fulham https://qualla.com/fulham en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/fulham-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fulham https://qualla.com/fulham Fulham: Introduction https://qualla.com/fulham/ Photo credit Edwardx, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Bishops of London lived here for thirteen hundred years. From around 704 until 1973, the manor of Fulham was the country residence of every Bishop of London who held the see — Saxon prelates, Norman appointees, Tudor reformers, Georgian aristocrats, Victorian Anglicans. They built and rebuilt the palace on the riverside meadows in a slow accumulation of medieval, Tudor and Georgian architecture, and they dug the longest moat in England around it. The moat is partly excavated now and the palace is a museum, but its quiet, hedged grounds still feel oddly cut off from the city that grew up around them — as if a piece of Saxon Middlesex slipped under the gate while London wasn't looking.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/fulham-wp/gcpu-fulham-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fulham: Fulla's Hemmed-In Land https://qualla.com/fulham/ Photo credit David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name is Old English: 'Fulla's hamm', the river-meadow of a man called Fulla, hemmed in by water on three sides as the Thames loops south around the peninsula. Domesday Book wrote it down in 1086 as Fuleham. Excavations around Fulham Palace have shown Neolithic occupation roug...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/fulham-wp/gcpu-fulham-fullas-hemmed-in-land.mp3 0:06 2 full Fulham: The Bishop's Palace https://qualla.com/fulham/ Photo credit Edwardx, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two stories survive for how the bishops acquired the land. One says Bishop Erkenwald was granted the manor about 691 for himself and his successors. The other says Bishop Waldhere bought it from Bishop Tyrhtel in 704. Either way, the bishops were here a thousand years before Lond...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/fulham-wp/gcpu-fulham-the-bishops-palace.mp3 0:06 3 full Fulham: Craven Cottage and the Stadium That Wouldn't Move https://qualla.com/fulham/ Photo credit Alex.muller, CC BY-SA 3.0. Fulham Football Club has played at Craven Cottage on the Thames riverside since 1896. The 'cottage' itself, after which the stadium is named, was a country house built in 1780 by William Craven, 6th Baron Craven — burned down in 1888, leaving only the name. The current Craven Cot...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/fulham-wp/gcpu-fulham-craven-cottage-and-the-stadium-that-wouldnt-move.mp3 0:06 4 full Fulham: Hurlingham, Where Polo Lives https://qualla.com/fulham/ Photo credit Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Hurlingham Club sits in 42 acres of grounds on the south side of Fulham, between Ranelagh Gardens and the river. Founded in 1869 as a pigeon-shooting club, it became in the 1870s the home of polo in Britain and the unofficial then official headquarters of the international ga...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/fulham-wp/gcpu-fulham-hurlingham-where-polo-lives.mp3 0:06 5 full Fulham: Trades, Industries, Lost Theatres https://qualla.com/fulham/ Photo credit Edward Burne-Jones, Public domain. Before the gentrification of the late twentieth century, Fulham worked. Fulham Pottery dates from the seventeenth century; tapestry weavers from the Gobelins manufactory in Paris set up a branch here in the 1750s. William De Morgan made tiles in Sands End with his wife the painte...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/fulham-wp/gcpu-fulham-trades-industries-lost-theatres.mp3 0:06 6 full Fulham: Bishop's Park on a Saturday https://qualla.com/fulham/ Photo credit Peter Damian, CC BY-SA 3.0. What survives, beyond the buildings, is a sense that this loop of the river has always been slightly apart from London proper. The bishops chose it for that reason. The polo players chose it for that reason. Fulham Football Club's fans, who have followed a small club through prom...

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