Fulham Palace is a former episcopal residence on the north bank of the Thames in Fulham, historically the country home of the Bishops of London for over 12 centuries and now a museum, historic house and botanical garden open to the public with free admission.
 
Fulham Palace stands beside Bishops Park, a short walk from Putney Bridge in west London, on a site occupied since at least the Neolithic, Iron Age and Roman periods thanks to a nearby Thames crossing.
 
The grounds include about 13 acres of botanical and walled gardens, rated Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, with historic planting and productive areas reflecting the palace’s past as a working estate. The painting above shows the lovely walled garden.
 
interesting facts...
after 12 centuries there are a few.
The most famous legend centres on Bishop Edmund Bonner, “Bloody Bonner”, whose ghost is said to haunt the north side of the Tudor courtyard and the gardens, with sightings reported into the 21st century.
Stories tell of a former coal cellar used as a dungeon and a tunnel allegedly running from the cellars to the Golden Lion pub on Fulham Palace Road, its walls lined with skeletons of Bonner’s supposed victims, though this grisly passage has never been archaeologically confirmed.