signs of age. Within it stood until recently
Peterborough House, the second of the name. The original Peterborough
House stood on the site of one still older, known as Brightwells. It was
the property of John Tarnworth, Privy Councillor to Queen Elizabeth, and
he died here in 1569.

Sir Thomas Knolles afterwards owned it, and sold it in 1603 to Sir
Thomas Smith, whose only daughter married the Hon. Thomas Carey. It was
he who pulled down the old house and built a new one, calling it Villa
Carey. Carey's daughter married Viscount Mordaunt, younger son of the
Earl of Peterborough. The house recently demolished only dated from the
beginning of the nineteenth century. Bowack describes the old house as a
"very large square regular Pile, built of brick, and has a gallery all
round it upon the roof." Building of red-brick mansions and small houses
is being carried on vigorously all about here, and the face of the
district has changed very rapidly.

Wandsworth Bridge Road runs across Townmead Road to the bridge. On the
south of Townmead Road there is a small hospital for small-pox, built in
1876. Below it lies West Wharf. Eastward acres of market-gardens extend
right up to the premises of the Imperial Gasworks. This part of the
parish is called Sands End. Somewhere about here a very ancient house,
called Grove House, stood. Rocque marks it "The Grove" in 1757 and 1761.
The house called Sandford Manor is still standing, and is very little
changed from the small print of it given on the title-page of Faulkner's
large edition. It is a small white house close to Stanley Bridge, and
has been often spoken of as if it were included in Chelsea. Addison, who
lived here, used to date his letters from Chelsea. Therefore the house
has been more particularly described in the section devoted to Chelsea.
The Manor of Sandford is first mentioned in 1403, when Henry, Earl of
Northumberland, gave it to the Dean and Chapter of St. Martin-le-Grand
in exchange for a house in Aldersgate Street. King Henry VIII. granted
the collegiate church of St. Martin and endowments to Westminster. The
Dean and Chapter of Westminster granted the manor to the King again in
1549. It was sold by Queen Mary to the Maynards, in whose family it
remained till 1756.

We have now traversed Fulham from end to end, beginning at the
north-east corner, and ending in the south-east corner close to Stanley
Bridge. Fulham can boast with pride of one ancient mansion--the palace