London Borough of Lewisham
Lewisham is a London borough in south-east London, England.
Lewisham is a London borough in south-east London, England. It forms part of Inner London. The principal settlement of the borough is Lewisham. The local authority is Lewisham London Borough Council, based in Catford. The Prime Meridian passes through Lewisham. Blackheath, Goldsmiths, University of London and Millwall F.C. are located within the borough.
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Worth seeing in and around London Borough of Lewisham
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Horniman Museum and Gardens
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style.
3.3 km · museum in Forest Hill, London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are a series of sculptures of dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Crystal Palace Park, South London. They were commissioned in 1852 to accompany the Crystal Palace Exhibition building after its relocation from the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park.
2.4 km · 1854 sculpture series in Crystal Palace Park, London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, England is a large sports centre and outdoor athletics stadium. It was opened in 1964 in Crystal Palace Park, close to the site of the former Crystal Palace Exhibition building which had been destroyed by fire in 1936, and is on the same site as the former FA Cup Final venue which was used here between 1895 and 1914.
2.5 km · National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Crystal Palace transmitting station
The Crystal Palace transmitting station, officially known as Arqiva Crystal Palace, is a broadcasting and telecommunications site in the Crystal Palace area of the London Borough of Bromley, England. It is located on the site of the former television station and transmitter operated by John Logie Baird from 1933.
3 km · telecommunications site in Bromley, England · Wikipedia - 05Spurgeon's College
Spurgeon's College was an evangelical Baptist theological college in South Norwood, London, England. It was affiliated with the Baptist Union of Great Britain.
3.8 km · Baptist theological college in London · Wikipedia - 06Beckenham Place Park
Beckenham Place Park is a large park located near Beckenham in the London Borough of Lewisham. It lies close to the border with the London Borough of Bromley, and was formerly divided between the two boroughs.
900 m · park in London Borough of Lewisham, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a Church of England church in Upper Norwood, a suburb of South London, in the United Kingdom. It is a Grade II* listed red brick Gothic Revival church which was built between 1878 and 1887 by the English architect John Loughborough Pearson.
3.3 km · church in the London Borough of Croydon, England,UK · Wikipedia - 08Crystal Palace Park
Crystal Palace Park is a large Victorian park in south-east London, Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It was laid out in the 1850s as a pleasure ground, centred around the re-location of The Crystal Palace – the largest glass building of the time – from central London to this area on the border of Kent and Surrey; the suburb that grew around the park is known by the same name.
2.6 km · Victorian pleasure ground in Crystal Palace, Bromley, London · Wikipedia - 09Eros House
Eros House is a Brutalist building in Catford, Lewisham, south London. It was designed by Rodney Gordon and Owen Luder and built 1960-63.
3.4 km · building · Wikipedia
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Getting to London Borough of Lewisham
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 30 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 32 km · London Stansted (STN), 55 km
- Stations
- Crystal Palace railway station, 2.7 km · Penge West railway station, 1.9 km · Forest Hill railway station, 2.8 km · Norwood Junction railway station, 3.6 km · Sydenham railway station, 1.9 km
- London, Essex → London Borough of Lewisham10 km · quickest by road, 46 min · £1–1.5
- Luton, Luton → London Borough of Lewisham55 km · quickest by road, 2h · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → London Borough of Lewisham173 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for London Borough of Lewisham
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for London Borough of Lewisham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inWhile the runway is usable by aircraft up to Boeing 737/Airbus A320 size, it is prohibited for airline operators to sell tickets for flights in and out of the airport, thus there are no scheduled or holiday charter flights from the airport.
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Next door to London Borough of Lewisham
London Borough of Lewisham is 12 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- London Borough of Bromleyborough in the London Region in England3.9 km
- Bromleylarge suburban district of south east London, England3.8 km
- Beckenhamarea in the London Borough of Bromley, England, UK1.3 km
- Pengedistrict in South London UK2.2 km
- Forest Hillsuburb of South East London, England3.5 km
- Catforddistrict in south London, England3.3 km