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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gipsy Hill like this:
GIPSY HILL, a chapelry in Lambeth parish, Surrey; on the Croydon railway, 2 miles S of Dulwich. It has a postal pillar-box under Norwood, London S, and a r. station. Pop., about 1, 500. The living is a p. curacy. Value, £1, 000. The church is an elegant structure of 1867.
Gipsy Hill is now part of SOUTHWARK District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTHWARK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Gipsy Hill itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gipsy Hill, in Southwark and Surrey | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23546
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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