A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
NORWOOD-ST. LUKE, a chapelry in Lambeth parish, Surrey; around Lower Norwood village and r. station, 5½ miles S of London bridge. It was constituted in 1824; and it has post-offices of Lower Norwood and Lower Norwood-High-street, under London S. Pop. in 1851, 3, 977; in 1861, 7, 462. Houses, 1, 141. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £150. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was built in 1825. The Lambeth workhouse industrial schools are here; and, at the census of 1861, had 442 inmates. See Norwood, Surrey.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Lambeth St Mary Vest/AP/CP Surrey AncC |
| Place: | Norwood |
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