Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GIPSY HILL

GIPSY HILL, a chapelry in Lambeth parish, Surrey; on the Croydon railway, 2 miles S of Dulwich. It has a postal pillar-box under Norwood, London S, and a r. station. Pop., about 1, 500. The living is a p. curacy. Value, £1, 000. The church is an elegant structure of 1867.


(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: Gipsy Hill

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