
About The Manor
HISTORY
The Walworth area is mentioned in the Doomsday book and has been a rich part of London's history for hundreds of years. During the late 18th century, maps of Walworth, which is close to the heart of Elephant and Castle as it stands now, describe it as a 'pleasant countryside neighbourhood with a few roads stretching across the gardens and fields'. It's hard to imagine this today as it is major artery joining the city to Peckham and beyond. Building in the area however was limited, in part due to the ongoing wars with France in the 1700 and 1800's - and it wasn't until 1808 that Walworth Road was described as being “lined by elegant mansions”. The Mansions must have seemed so outstanding to local people and it is wonderful that some still survive today as grade II listed buildings. The Manor originally formed the central part of a traditional Georgian terrace that was a part of a row designed and built by Francis Hurlblatt a local architect. The expansion of the railways saw further development in the area right up to the second World War where huge damage from the German Luftwaffe's Blitzkrieg was inflicted upon london.The area, then went through some major transformations. Elephant and Castle became a suburb of London that represented both the wealth and the poverty of living in a big city.