Venues in Fulham
Fulham entertains on grass and behind gates — a Tudor bishop’s palace, forty-two acres of private lawn by the river, and garden addresses that keep their own counsel.
The Hurlingham Club
Fulham — Members' Club
Up to 850 guests
A Georgian clubhouse in 42 acres on the Thames at Fulham, where a 43-metre glass-roofed Palm Court opens into a sprung-floor ballroom. Open to non-members for private hire.
Fulham Palace
Fulham — Event Space
Up to 1,000 guests
The country house of the Bishops of London from AD 704 to 1973, with a Tudor courtyard, Georgian state rooms and thirteen acres of walled garden by the Thames.
/ About Fulham▾
Fulham occupies the bend of the Thames between Chelsea and Putney, and its oldest institution is its grandest. Fulham Palace was the country residence of the Bishops of London for more than a thousand years, from a grant of the manor around 704 until the last bishop left in 1973. The Tudor courtyard of about 1495 survives at its centre, with Georgian and Victorian ranges around it, and the moat that enclosed the grounds was the longest domestic moat in England until it was filled in 1921. Bishops Park runs along the river beside it.
The district’s event character is private ground rather than public room. The Hurlingham Club was founded in 1869 around a Georgian house of 1760 and holds forty-two acres of lawn, terrace and garden inside the bend of the river — modern polo was codified on these grounds in the 1870s, and the club still gives its name to the sport’s rules. Craven Cottage has been Fulham Football Club’s ground since 1896 and keeps Archibald Leitch’s pavilion and Johnny Haynes Stand of 1905, both listed. Between them, the New King’s Road and Parsons Green carry the neighbourhood dining.
Fulham Road runs the length of the district and up into Chelsea, and Fulham Broadway gathers the shops. Green space is unusually generous for inner London: Bishops Park along the water, Parsons Green, Eel Brook Common and South Park. For access, the District line calls at Putney Bridge, Parsons Green and Fulham Broadway, Imperial Wharf sits on the Overground beside the river, and Hammersmith is a few minutes north — so a central London guest list reaches Fulham in about twenty minutes.