Road · Lambeth · SE11 · Contributed by The Underground Map

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Lambeth

The ’Lamb’ in Lambeth really means just that.

The name is recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha, meaning ’landing place for lambs’, and in 1255 as Lambeth. The name refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the Old English ’lamb’ and ’hythe.

South Lambeth is recorded as Sutlamehethe in 1241 and North Lambeth is recorded in 1319 as North Lamhuth. The marshland in the area, known as Lambeth Marshe, was drained in the 18th century but is remembered in the Lower Marsh street name. Sometime after the opening of Waterloo railway station in 1848 the locality around the station and Lower Marsh became known as Waterloo.

Lambeth Palace is located opposite the Palace of Westminster. The two were linked by a horse ferry across the Thames.

Until the mid-18th Century the north of Lambeth was marshland, crossed by a number of roads raised against floods.

With the opening of Westminster Bridge in 1750, followed by the Blackfriars Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge, a number of major thoroughfares were developed through Lambeth, such as Westminster Bridge Road, Kennington Road and Camberwell New Road.

In William Blake’s epic Milton a Poem, the poet John Milton leaves Heaven and travels to Lambeth, in the form of a falling comet, and enters Blake’s foot. This allows Blake to treat the ordinary world as perceived by the five senses as a sandal formed of "precious stones and gold" that he can now wear. Blake ties the sandal and, guided by Los, walks with it into the City of Art, inspired by the spirit of poetic creativity. The poem was written between 1804 and 1810.

LOCATIONS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

Canterbury Music Hall:   The Canterbury Music Hall was established in 1852 by Charles Morton on the site of a former skittle alley adjacent to the Canterbury Tavern at 143 Westminster Bridge Road.
City Racing:   City Racing was an artist-run space in Kennington, South London which was active between 1988 and 1998.
Garden Museum:   The first museum in the world dedicated to the history of gardening.
Horns Tavern:   The first mention of the Green Man and Horns tavern near Kennington Common was in 1725.
Jubilee Gardens:   
Kennington:   Kennington was a royal manor in the ancient parish of St Mary, Lambeth in the county of Surrey and was the administrative centre of the parish from 1853.
Kennington Park:   Kennington Park is a public park in Kennington, south London.
Lambeth:   The ’Lamb’ in Lambeth really means just that.
Necropolis Station:   The London Necropolis Railway was opened in 1854 as a reaction to severe overcrowding in London’s existing graveyards and cemeteries.
Ovalhouse:   Ovalhouse, formerly called Oval House Theatre, is an Off-West End theatre.

PHOTOS OF THE AREA

Beet Court (1910):   Photograph of Beet Court aka Lemon Court, in 1910.
Chartist meeting, Kennington Common (1848):   On 10 April 1848, William Kilburn took daguerrotypes of the Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common – taken from the top of The Horns tavern were the first ever photos of a crowd scene.
Gunner's Cottages (1910):   Gunner’s Cottages, off Salamanca Street, Lambeth 1910.
Lambeth Bridge (1865):   Lambeth Bridge is on the site of a horse ferry between the Palace of Westminster and Lambeth Palace on the south bank.
Lambeth High Street (1860):   This photograph of the Windmill inn, Lambeth High Street, dates from 1860
Old Red Cow:   The Old Red Cow (right of picture)
Street cricket (1953):   Street cricket has been played across London since the rules of the game were formulated.
Wake Street:   Wake Street (King Street before the 1880s) was featured in photos from the Picture Post edition of 31 December 1938.
Waterloo Air Terminal (1953):   Officially known as the British European Airways Waterloo Air Terminal, the building was officially opened on the Festival of Britain site on 19 May 1953 by the then Minister of Aviation.
York Wharf:   York Wharf, photographed in 1866.

NEARBY STREETS AND BUILDINGS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

Ashmole Place, SW8 · Aulton Place, SE11 · Aveline Street, SE11 · Barbel Street, SE1 · Baylis Road, SE1 · Beaufoy Walk, SE11 · Bedlam Mews, SE11 · Belvedere Road, SE1 · Black Prince Road, SE1 · Black Prince Road, SE11 · Bowden Street, SE11 · Bowling Green Street, SE11 · Brixton Road, SE11 · Cardigan Street, SE11 · Carlisle Lane, SE1 · Centaur Street, SE1 · Chester Way, SE11 · China Walk, SE11 · Clayton Street, SE11 · Cleaver Square, SE11 · Cleaver Street, SE11 · Conwall Square Kennings Way, SE11 · Cooper Close, SE1 · Coral Street, SE1 · Cosser Street, SE1 · Courtenay Square, SE11 · Courtenay Street, SE11 · De Laune Street, SE17 · Denny Crescent, SE11 · Denny Cresent, SE11 · Distin Street, SE11 · Dodson Street, SE1 · Dolland House, SE11 · Fitzalan Street, SE11 · Gerridge Street, SE1 · Gibson Road, SE11 · Greenham Close, SE1 · Harleyford Street, SE11 · Harmsworth Street, SE17 · Hercules Road, SE1 · Hornbeam Close, SE11 · Hotspur Street, SE11 · Hurley Road, SE11 · Johanna Street, SE1 · Jonathan Street, SE11 · Juxon Street, SE11 · Kempsford Road, SE11 · Kennings Way, SE11 · Kennington Lane, SE11 · Kennington Lane, SW8 · Kennington Oval, SE11 · Kennington Park Gardens, SE17 · Kennington Park Place, SE11 · Kennington Park Place, SE17 · Kennington Park Road, SE11 · Kennington Park Road, SE17 · Kennington Park, SE5 · Kennington Road, SE1 · Kennington Road, SE11 · Kennington Road, SW95 · King Edward Walk, SE1 · Lambeth Bridge, SE1 · Lambeth High Street, SE1 · Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 · Lambeth Palace Road, SW1 · Lambeth Pier, SE1 · Lambeth Road, SE1 · Lambeth Road, SE11 · Lambeth Walk, SE1 · Lambeth Walk, SE11 · Launcelot Street, SE1 · Leake Street, SE1 · Lilac Place, SE11 · Lohmann House, SE11 · Lollard Street, SE11 · Loughborough Street, SE11 · Lower Marsh, SE1 · Magee Street, SE11 · Marylee Way, SE11 · Methley Street, SE11 · Milverton Street, SE11 · Montford Place, SE11 · Newburn Street, SE11 · Newnham Terrace, SE1 · Newport Street, SE11 · Norfolk Row, SE1 · Old Paradise Street, SE1 · Old Paradise Street, SE11 · Opal Street, SE11 · Pear Place, SE1 · Pegasus Place, SE11 · Pratt Walk, SE1 · Pratt Walk, SE11 · Radcot Street, SE11 · Randall Road, SE11 · Ravensdon Street, SE11 · Reedworth Street, SE11 · Royal Street, SE1 · Sail Street, SE11 · Saint Agnes Place, SE11 · Salamanca Place, SE1 · Salamanca Street, SE1 · Sancroft Street, SE11 · Saunders Street, SE11 · Scotson House, SE11 · Sedley House, SE11 · Silk Mews, SE11 · South Street, SE11 · St Agnes Place, SE11 · St. Agnes Place, SE11 · St. Georges Mews, SE1 · Stannary Street, SE11 · Steam Pump Lane, W4 · Tanswell Street, SE1 · The Chandlery, SE1 · The Fosters Oval, SE11 · The Tunnel, SE1 · Vauxhall Walk, SE11 · Virgil Street, SE1 · Walnut Tree Walk, SE11 · Waterloo Bridge, SE1 · Waterloo Bridge, WC2R · Waterloo Centre, SE1 · White Hart Street, SE11 · Whitehorse Mews, SE1 · Whitehouse Apartments, SE1 · Whitgift Street, SE1 · Whitgift Street, SE11 · Wincott Parade, SE11 · Windmill Row, SE11 · Wynyard Terrace, SE11 ·