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The Surrey House of Correction, later Brixton prison, was established in 1819. ... Map of Brixton in 1889, showing Coldharbour Lane, Angell Town and Loughborough Road.
A map showing the wards of Lambeth Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. The borough council was established in 1900. The metropolitan borough was divided into nine wards for elections: Bishop's, Brixton, Herne Hill, Marsh, Norwood, Prince's, Stockwell, Tulse Hill and Vauxhall.
Brixton Hundred or the Hundred of Brixton was for many centuries a group of parishes used for meetings and taxation of their respective great estates in the north east of the county of Surrey, England. Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London; with its name currently referring to the Brixton district. [1]
Surrey (/ ˈ s ʌr i /) [4] is a ... A map showing the traditional boundaries of Surrey (c. 800–1899) ... These were the hundreds of Blackheath, Brixton, Copthorne, ...
Brixton is its civic centre, and there are other town centres. The largest shopping areas are (in order of size) Streatham , Brixton , Vauxhall , Clapham and West Norwood . In the northern part of the borough are the central London districts of the South Bank , Vauxhall and Lambeth ; in the south are the suburbs of Gipsy Hill , Streatham , West ...
Loughborough Road was named after the seventeenth century manor house owner, Henry Hastings, first Baron Loughborough. [2] It is a street of two halves. The north end between Brixton Road and Akerman Road, remains largely as it was built in the 1850-60s.
Coldharbour Lane seen from Acre Lane.. Coldharbour Lane is a road in south London, England, that leads south-westwards from Camberwell to Brixton.The road is over 1 mile (1.6 km) long with a mixture of residential, business and retail buildings – the stretch of Coldharbour Lane near Brixton Market contains shops, bars and restaurants.
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.