WATERLOO ROAD (First and Second), two sub-districts in Lambeth district, Surrey; on the river Thames, 1 miles SW by W of St. Paul's, London. The First comprises the part of the original chapelry of W.-St. John lying eastward of W.-road; and the Second, the part between W.-road and Westminster-Bridge-road. Acres of the First, 91; of which 23 are water. Pop. in 1851, 14,088; in 1861, 15,269. Houses, 1,736. Acres of the Second, 142; of which 43 are water. Pop. in 1851, 18,348; in 1861, 18,640. Houses, 2,179. W.-road proper is a line of street-thoroughfare from the Thames, at right angles with it, south-south-eastward to the Borough-road. W.-bridge spans the Thames on a line with W.-road; was built in 1811-7, at a cost of more than £1,000,000; has a level road way 1,326 feet long, with elegant granite balustrades; comprises 9 elliptical arches each 120 feet in span; and is approached, on the Surrey side, by an artificial inclined plane upon 40 arches,-on the Middlesex side, by an artificial road on 16 arches. W. station, or the terminus of the South-western railway, is on the W side of W.-road, near the bridge; and has been noticed in our article on London. W. and Whitehall railway is a railway on the pneumatic principle, ¾ mile long, from W. station to Charing-Cross; and was authorized in 1865.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))