Fulham Road

The west London street that is home to Stamford Bridge, Chelsea F.C.'s ground.

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Fulham Road is a London street made up of the A304 and part of the A308. For Chelsea F.C. supporters it is the most familiar address in football, because Stamford Bridge, the club's home ground with an official capacity of 41,837, stands on it. The road links Fulham with Chelsea and Brompton, crossing the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. On match days many fans arrive at Fulham Broadway Underground station, which sits on the road itself. Away from football, the street is known for antique dealers, interior furnishing shops, hospitals and nightlife.

Quick Facts

Road numbers: A304, part of A308
West end: Putney Bridge
East end: Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
Station: Fulham Broadway

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Background

The street begins at Putney Bridge, where it is called Fulham High Street, and heads east to Fulham Broadway before continuing through Chelsea to Brompton Road in Knightsbridge. It carries the A304 number as far as Gunter Grove, where the A308 takes over for the eastern stretch. It runs roughly alongside King's Road. At its western end sit Fulham Palace and Fulham Fire Station. Commercial life on the road goes back a long way: around 1890 the chemist E. Anstee Turner kept shops at 100 and 280 Fulham Road, selling a cold cream in printed pottery pots whose lids still turn up in excavated rubbish dumps. On 11 May 1964 Terence Conran opened the first Habitat store here.