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Dulwich
Dulwich is one of London's finest 'villages', combining close proximity to the centre of the city with the peaceful ambience of a small and leafy country town.
The name Dilwihs (Dulwich), meaning "Marshy Meadow Where Dill Grows," was first recorded in AD 967. The manor of Dulwich was owned by Bermondsey Abbey from 1127 to 1538.
Edward Alleyn, a successful Shakespearean actor, bought the manor in 1605 and founded the "College of God's Gift" to provide education for "12 poor scholars" and almshouses for "6 poor brethren and 6 poor sisters." The Alleyn Foundation, reconstituted in 1857 and again in 1882, now comprises three schools: Dulwich College, Alleyn's School, and James Allen's Girls' School.
The main buildings of Dulwich College were built in 1866-70 to designs of Charles Barry (the younger) - who also built the Houses of Parliament.
Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the world's most important collections of European old master paintings of the 1600s and 1700s. The collection is also one of the oldest in Great Britain, substantially put together in the years 1790 to 1795.
The paintings are housed in the first purpose-built art gallery in England, designed by Sir John Soane. Soane's building is as famous as the collection it so perfectly displays.
The Dulwich Estates Governors have contained development and preserved the area's rural character. Dulwich Village is noted for its historic houses such as the 18th-century Beauberry House (rebuilt 1965) now a restaurant, and the 19th-century Kingswood, now used as a library and wedding venue.
Notable residents of the area have included the 19th-century writer and artist John Ruskin and the former prime minister (1979-90) Margaret Thatcher.