Fulham Broadway to Earls Court

Fulham Broadway Station is served by the District Line tube, between Earls Court and Wimbledon. There are also buses, including the 14, 414, 211, 11, 424, 28, 295, 22 and 391.

[1] Leave the station by the main exit onto the Fulham Road.  Turn left and walk along the North side of the road.  

[A] Pass the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation building, built in 1916 to provide low cost housing for injured WWI soldiers and their families.

[2] Pass Chelsea Football Ground and continue ahead, passing the attractive Billing Road on the left.  

[B] On the other side of Fulham Road is St Mark's College Chapel, on the site of St Mark and St Luke's training Teacher Training College. Between 1914 and 1919 it served as a British Military Hospital for trrops returning from the Front.

[3] Shortly after this turn left through the iron gates of Brompton Cemetery. Walk ahead past the first turning to the left. Turn left at the next turning, then right passing in front of the Chapel to the entrance.  Turn right into the main walkway passing between the Colonnades. 

[C] Brompton Cemetery is an important Victorian Cemetery built in response to growing population of London in the nineteenth century (see below). The cemetery, chapel and Colonnades have featured in a number of films over the years, including the 1995 Goldeneye.

[4] Continue up the main path to the North Gate. Turn left and walk past West Brompton Station to the crossing. Cross and turn right to reach the Exhibition Centre.

[D]  As you near the North Gate, a small military cemetery is visible off  the left hand side. This is partly for graves for members of  the Brigade of Guards, but there are members of other regiments commemorated here.

[C] Brompton Cemetery.

The West London and Westminster Cemetery Company, as it was known, was established in 1836 and then opened in 1840 to the design of Benjamin Baud. Regarded as one of the finest Victorian Metropolitan cemeteries in the country, it has a formal layout with a central avenue leading to a chapel based on St Peter's Basilica in Rome. Amongst its shady walks are over 35,000 monuments - many of historical importance. Buried at the cemetery are people from all walks of life, including thirteen holders of the Victorian Cross, Chelsea Pensioners and the community of West London. The cemetery provides a rare haven of peace, beauty and tranquillity. After the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, London became the world's commercial capital. Its population increased from 1 million in 1800 to over 2.6 million by 1850. Consequently the inadequate sanitary conditions led to endemic disease and the existing burial grounds were unable to cope. Parliament authorised the establishment of seven commercial cemeteries around London, of which Brompton is an outstanding example. It was known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery.   http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/brompton-cemetery/about-the-cemetery       

Brompton Cemetery Website : http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/brompton-cemetery/about-the-cemetery. Provides information about the Cemetery quoted in the  additional points of Interest.