Deptford

Deptford built Henry VIII's navy, watched Drake get knighted and saw Christopher Marlowe stabbed in a house on the Strand, and estate agents still think "the new Shoreditch" is the most exciting thing anyone has said about it. They've been saying it for years. Deptford keeps turning them down, and when the council tried to make the high street pedestrian-only every day, residents and market traders saw that off too. People come for the art-school cool and stay in a place that won't be improved unless it asks.