Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

Travel writing

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

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
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