New Cross, Surrey : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about New Cross. You may be able to find further references to New Cross in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
New Cross railway terminus Bartholomew
NEW CROSS a hamlet Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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 Historical Gazetteer
Hatcham 0 2
Nunhead 0 2
Deptford 45 4
Peckham 5 2
South Bermondsey 0 1
Brockley 0 2
Ladywell 0 2
Millwall 0 1
Honor Oak 0 3
Greenwich 33 3
Denmark Hill 0 2
Lewisham 12 2
the Isle of Dogs 0 3
Rotherhithe 12 2
Champion Hill 0 2
Camberwell 5 2
Forest Hill 0 2
Wapping 16 2
Bermondsey 1 2
Catford 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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