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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Millwall like this:
Millwall, eccl. dist., Poplar par., Middlesex, in E. of London, pop. 5485; Millwall Junction, ry. sta., is 3 miles E. of Penchurch Street sta., London; Millwall Docks, with ry. sta., Isle of Dogs, are 1 mile S. of Millwall Junction.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Millwall by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
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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the Isle of Dogs | 0 | 3 |
Deptford | 38 | 4 |
Greenwich | 33 | 3 |
Poplar | 5 | 3 |
Limehouse | 10 | 2 |
Blackwall | 0 | 2 |
Ratcliffe | 8 | 2 |
Rotherhithe | 0 | 2 |
South Bermondsey | 0 | 1 |
Hatcham | 0 | 2 |
Tower Hamlets | 0 | 2 |
New Cross | 0 | 2 |
Westcombe Park | 0 | 2 |
Shadwell | 2 | 2 |
Wapping | 16 | 2 |
Bow Common | 0 | 1 |
Stepney | 5 | 2 |
Canning Town | 0 | 3 |
London Docks | 0 | 1 |
St George in the East | 0 | 2 |