History of Lambeth in Surrey

Place:

Lambeth Surrey

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Lambeth. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
IAMBEHITH	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LAMBETH	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
LAMBETH	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LAMBHYTHE	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LAMCHEI	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Lambeth. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
00AY	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
CENTRAL LAMBETH	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
E140395	Local Government District (LB)
LAMBETH	Constituency (PBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
	Local Government District (MetB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 645.
	Local Government District (LB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 310.
	Parish-level Unit (Vest/AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 306.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLPar)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 644.
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 781.
	Sanitary District (Lon_SDist)	1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'.
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
LAMBETH ALL SAINTS LOWER MARSH	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
LAMBETH CENTRAL	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
LAMBETH CHURCH	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
LAMBETH CHURCH 1ST	Registration sub-District	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
LAMBETH CHURCH 2ND	Registration sub-District	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
LAMBETH CHURCH FIRST	Registration sub-District	1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
LAMBETH CHURCH SECOND	Registration sub-District	1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
LAMBETH EMMANUEL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 483.
LAMBETH HOLY TRINITY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
LAMBETH NORTH	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
LAMBETH ST ANDREW	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
LAMBETH ST ANDREW WITH ST THOMAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
LAMBETH ST MARY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
	Parish-level Unit (Vest/AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 483.
LAMBETH ST MARY THE LESS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
LAMBETH ST MARY WITH HOLY TRINITY AND EMMANUEL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
LAMBETH ST PHILIP	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
LAMBETH ST THOMAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
LONDON/LAMBETH	1841 Occupation reporting area	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'.
NORTH LAMBETH	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
NORTH LAMBETH	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
SOUTH LAMBETH ALL SAINTS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
SOUTH LAMBETH ALL SAINTS ST BARNABAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
SOUTH LAMBETH ST ANNE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
SOUTH LAMBETH ST STEPHEN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.
ST MARY AT LAMBETH	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 484.

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Lambeth, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Lambeth, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lambeth in Surrey | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/715/names

Date accessed: 26th April 2025