Lillie Road

Lillie Road is a thoroughfare in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is a mixed residential and commercial road in the Postcode area of SW6.

It is also the A3218 road and runs east to west as the continuation of Old Brompton Road from Lillie Bridge (Fulham) to a T junction with the A219 road or Fulham Palace Road. Its main intersections are with the North End Road, Fulham and with the Munster Road at Fulham Cross.

It is named after Sir John Scott Lillie, who first laid out the easternmost section of the road across his North End Hermitage estate in 1826 running from Gunter's footbridge over the tidal Counter's Creek to the T junction of the old Crown Lane with North End Lane. The intention was to link traffic from the new Hammersmith Bridge with the North End wharves of the planned Kensington Canal, thus obviating passage through Hammersmith and Kensington, or following the entire loop of the Thames river to Chelsea. Lillie's development also included late Georgian housing, terraces called, 'Rosa Villas' and 'Hermitage Cottages', on the north side of his 'New' road, some of which remain and recall Hermitage House that once stood here. He also built a brewery on the opposite side of the road in 1832. Only its 1835 public house, 'The Lillie Arms' remains, renamed the Lillie Langtry, due to the surmise that the Jersey actress had her assignations with the future Edward VII in one of the Georgian houses in Lillie Road. The Lillie Langtry is one of the oldest extant pubs in Fulham, while the 1883 Prince of Wales, opposite, rebuilt by Watney Combe & Reid in the Arts and Crafts style in 1938, is destined for imminent demolition, unlike the former Fuller's Seven Stars, West Kensington, around the North End Road corner, also from 1938, which has been preserved as flats.

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