Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lewisham. You may be able to find further references to Lewisham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
LEWISHAM	a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Lewisham.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brockley	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Catford Bridge	station	Bartholomew
Forest Hill	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
FOREST-HILL	a chapelry	Imperial
HITHER-GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial
Honor Oak	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Perry Hill	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
PERRY-SLOUGH, or Perrystow	a hamlet	Imperial
Rushey Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
RUSHEY-GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial
Sydenham	district and railway station	Bartholomew
SYDENHAM	a small town, a sub-district, and seven chapelries	Imperial
Upper Sydenham	railway station	Bartholomew

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 Lewisham 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.
Charles Wesley	Nov. 29 - Dec. 6,1753: London and Bristol	2
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	2
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	1
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1748: London, Wales and Ireland	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	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
Ladywell	0	2
Rushey Green	0	2
Catford	0	2
Blackheath	0	2
Lee	0	2
Brockley	0	2
Honor Oak	0	3
Deptford	38	4
Greenwich	33	3
Perry Hill	0	1
Nunhead	0	2
Kidbrooke	0	2
Hatcham	0	2
New Cross	0	2
Southend	0	1
Forest Hill	0	2
Lower Sydenham	0	2
Westcombe Park	0	2
Grove Park	0	1
Millwall	0	1