Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WATERLOO-ST. JOHN

WATERLOO-ST. JOHN, a chapelry in Lambeth parish, Surrey; on the Thames, adjacent to W.-bridge and W. r. station, 1 mile SW by W of St. Paul's, London. It was originally conterminate with the two W.-road sub-districts; but was reconstituted, within much narrower limits, in 1846. It has post-offices under London SE., and a L. police station. Pop. in 1861, 10,262. Houses, 1,186. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was built in 1823, and is in the Doric style.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lambeth St Mary Vest/AP/CP       Surrey AncC
Place: Waterloo

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