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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lambeth. You may be able to find further references to Lambeth in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | LAMBETH | a metropolitan suburb, a parish, a district, and a borough | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Lambeth.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Brixton | district and railway station | Bartholomew | BRIXTON | a metropolitan suburb, five chapelries, a subdistrict, and a hundred | Imperial | DENMARK HILL | a chapelry | Imperial | Gipsy Hill | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | GIPSY HILL | a chapelry | Imperial | HERNE HILL | a suburb | Imperial | Kennington | ecclesiastical districts | Bartholomew | KENNINGTON | a metropolitan suburb | Imperial | Kennington Road | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Kennington, South | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Lower Norwood | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | NINE-ELMS | a quondam hamlet, now a metropolitansuburb | Imperial | NORWOOD | a sub-district | Imperial | Norwood, Lower | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | NORWOOD-ST. LUKE | a chapelry | Imperial | South Stockwell | railway station | Bartholomew | STOCKWELL | a chapelry | Imperial | Stockwell and Stockwell Green | 2 ecclesiastical districts | Bartholomew | TULSE-HILL | a chapelry | Imperial | Vauxhall | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | VAUXHALL | a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry | Imperial | Waterloo Road | district | Bartholomew | WATERLOO-ST. JOHN | a chapelry | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Lambeth within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs | 2 | John Wesley | 1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales | 2 | Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester | 1 | Karl Moritz | Chapter 4: Preaching and Pleasure Gardens | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Kennington | 0 | 2 |
Vauxhall | 0 | 2 |
Newington | 9 | 2 |
Walworth | 0 | 2 |
Waterloo | 0 | 5 |
Westminster | 103 | 7 |
Nine Elms | 0 | 2 |
Southwark | 44 | 6 |
Tothill Fields | 0 | 2 |
Pimlico | 0 | 2 |
Borough | 0 | 2 |
Camberwell | 5 | 2 |
Victoria | 0 | 1 |
Stockwell | 0 | 2 |
Charing Cross | 1 | 4 |
Strand | 1 | 5 |
St James | 0 | 2 |
Duchy of Lancaster | 0 | 1 |
Middle Temple | 0 | 2 |
Inner Temple | 0 | 1 |