Hammersmith Area Guide

Bordering Shepherd’s Bush, Kensington, Fulham and Chiswick, Hammersmith is central to the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and is only about five miles outside the city centre.

Hammersmith is an important transport centre and is, therefore, popular with businesses and residents wanting quick and easy access to Central London as well as more westerly regions.

It is suggested that there were people living in Hammersmith since Roman times, but it wasn’t until the Metropolitan Railway linked Hammersmith to Paddington in 1864 and the District Line appeared a decade later, that the area’s population really began to explode. Since then, it has become a coveted area with city commuters keeping house prices at a particularly high level, throughout the region.