A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Camberwell. You may be able to find further references to Camberwell in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | CAMBERWELL | a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Camberwell.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | DENMARK HILL | a chapelry | Imperial | Dulwich | 2 ecclesiastical districts | Bartholomew | DULWICH | a village, a suburban tract, and three chapelries | Imperial | Goose Green | district | Bartholomew | GOOSE GREEN | a hamlet | Imperial | Nunhead | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | NUNHEAD | a hamlet | Imperial | Peckham | 2 ecclesiastical districts | Bartholomew | PECKHAM | a metropolitan suburb, a sub-district, and several chapelries | 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 Camberwell 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. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 4 | John Wesley | 1785-90: Collects Money for the Poor; Visits House of Lords; Reasons for his Long Life | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Denmark Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Champion Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Peckham | 0 | 2 |
| Walworth | 0 | 2 |
| Loughborough Park | 0 | 2 |
| Kennington | 0 | 2 |
| Newington | 9 | 2 |
| Brixton | 0 | 2 |
| Stockwell | 0 | 2 |
| Lambeth | 9 | 2 |
| Herne Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Dulwich | 0 | 2 |
| Vauxhall | 0 | 2 |
| South Bermondsey | 0 | 1 |
| Nunhead | 0 | 2 |
| New Cross | 0 | 2 |
| Borough | 0 | 2 |
| Southwark | 44 | 6 |
| Hatcham | 0 | 2 |
| Clapham | 0 | 2 |