Sands End
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| Sands End shown within Greater London | |
| Population | 12,760 (2011 Census.Ward) |
| OS grid reference | TQ265765 |
| London borough | |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | SW6 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| EU Parliament | London |
| UK Parliament | |
| London Assembly | |
Sands End denotes an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, formerly in the County of Middlesex. It is the southernmost part to the east of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London, England. It lies in a deep loop of the Thames river, between the tidal Chelsea Creek and the old Peterborough estate, west of Wandsworth Bridge. Its northern edge may be defined by the New King's Road. Where there were wharves, industrial acres and workers' cottages has given way to intensive re-development since the last quarter of the 20th-century. It contains some three hundred year old cottages, 19th-century genteel streets and now the Chelsea Harbour and Imperial Wharf developments.
For centuries this swampy place was a rural backwater, cut off from other villages and the main thoroughfares into the City of London. Its earliest recorded landowner was John de Saundeford in the reign of Edward I. Barbara Denny, a contemporary historian, writes that King Henry VIII granted the manor of Sandford to the Abbot of Westminster, but that in 1549 it returned to the Crown. Ten years later, Queen Mary sold it to a mercer from London, William Maynard. Although the estate had a manor house, for centuries the land was used mainly for pasture. Singing nightingales in the 17th-century are said to have arrested the attention of essayist and politician, Joseph Addison (1672-1719), who came to live in his 'retreat' hereabouts, but probably not in Sandford Manor House, which is in present day Rewell Street, and Grade II* listed. Another reputed resident was Nell Gwyn.
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