Lambeth Marsh
Names
- Lambeth Marsh
Street/Area/District
- Lambeth Marsh
Maps & Views
- 1593 Westminster (Norden, 1653): Lambeth Marsh
- 1720 London (Strype): Lambeth Marsh
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Lambeth Marsh
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Lambeth Marsh, about 550 Yds NEly from Lambeth Church.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Lambeth Marsh, between Lambeth and Spring Gardens.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Lambeth-Marsh, Westminster-Bridge-Road,—the second on the L. about ¼ of a mile from the bridge, leading from the turnpike to Blackfriars-road.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Lambeth-Marsh, Westminster-bridge-road, is the second turning on the left hand, about a quarter of a mile from the bridge.
from Survey of London: Volume 23, Lambeth: South Bank and Vauxhall, ed. Howard Roberts & Walter H. Godfrey (London County Council; British History Online) (1951)
Lambeth Marsh. Until the 18th century the term Lambeth Marsh was applied to most of the parish of Lambeth north of the church and east of Narrow Wall, but gradually as the area began to be developed it came to be used more specifically for the road across the marsh to St. George's Fields, the road now known as Upper Marsh and Lower Marsh. On Rocque's map of 1745 most of the road is shown as lined with houses, a piece of ribbon development in what was otherwise an area of fields and gardens. The frontispiece to this volume, a watercolour drawing by William Capon in the Council's collection, purports to be a view from "a gentleman's seat" in Lambeth Marsh made in 1804. The alignment of the City churches, the Monument, and the square shot tower suggests that the viewpoint was at or near Lambeth Palace and that the large house which forms the central feature was Carlisle House. It does not, however, seem possible to reconcile the view completely with the position as shown on maps and other views of the period, and it is probable that Capon was to some extent drawing on his imagination and memory of what he had seen in his earlier days.
Brief mention must be made of the Canterbury Music Hall in Upper Marsh, opened by Charles Morton in 1849,185 which survived until the 1939–45 war (Plate 47) and of the Bower Saloon near the junction of Upper Marsh and Stangate Street, which was used for crude melodrama and variety entertainments in the middle of the 19th century.