Once a Victorian slum area, council housing was built here in the 20th century, including the brutalist architecture World's End estate.

The house was probably called "The World's End" on account of its then considerable distance from London, and the bad and dangerous state of the roads and pathways leading to it.

[3] On Cary's New And Accurate Plan Of London And Westminster (1795), the inn is shown on the north side of Kings Road, the only building in the area.

[4] The modern public house, the World's End Distillery, on the south side of King's Road, was built in 1897.

This was followed, in early 70's, by the red brick towers of the World's End estate which swept away many Victorian terraced houses.