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Stockwell probably got the second half of its name from a local well ; the other half is from " stoc ", which was Old English for a tree trunk or post.

From the thirteenth to the start of the nineteenth century, Stockwell was a rural manor at the edge of London.

It included market gardens and John Tradescant's botanical garden – commemorated in Tradescant Road, which was built over it in 1880, and in a memorial outside St Stephen's church.

In the nineteenth century it developed as an elegant middle class suburb.

Residents included the artist Arthur Rackham, who was born in South Lambeth Road in 1867, moving with his family to Albert Square when he was 15.