'showed me in the passage diverse remains of the Redriff, 'across the fields' to Lambeth, meaning there to cross the Thames to Westminster. Wallis, in a letter to Samuel Pepys, dated inġ699, speaks of having walked, fifty years before,įrom Stangate, close by Westminster Bridge, to Through Newington, to the river Thames again atĬhelsea Reach but its exact course cannot nowĭr. Ran from the great wet dock, below Rotherhithe, The line of this canal, called 'Canute's Trench,' Ships to the west of the bridge, and to enable himīy that means to invest the town on all sides. Marshes, wide and deep enough to convey his Side of the place, he projected the design of Vessels to make any impression on the Thames The citizens that he could not come up with his 1) Canute laid siege to London but finding that the bridge was so strongly fortified by In 1016, as we have already had occasion to To the lands on the south of the Thames near To this cause and some great rains which had 'Survey,' informs us that, so late as 1555, owing Mischief and Strype, in his edition of Stow's Periodical overflows continued to do considerable That employment notwithstanding which, these Such workmen as they should find necessary for Take measures for repairing them, and to impress River, here and in the adjoining parishes, and to Remaining for persons to survey the banks of the It is not stated when all this ground wasįirst drained, but various ancient commissions are In the winter a great part of them, now knownĪs Lambeth Marsh and Marsh Gate, were under Probably one of the æstiva, or summer camps for Roman remains, coins, tesselated pavements, urns,Īnd bones have been found there. Occupied by the Romans, for large quantities of Villas, after the Dutch summer-house fashion, on Threw embanked roads, and on which they reared Marsh-which lies between them and the Thames-were at one time almost covered with water atĮvery high tide, and across which the Romans George his fielde near London.'Īnd yet these 'fields,' together with Lambeth Plenty in any one place as the water ditchesĪdjoining St. Water-violets,' he says, 'I have not found such Here to collect specimens of his 'Herbal.' 'Of Once to have been marked by all the floral beauty George's Fields were named after the adjacent church of St. London,' would present the reader of to-day withĪ more faithful character of St. Though less poetic, quoted from Tallis's 'Illustrated Locality but even this description has long ceased Which were once the chief characteristics of this The decline alike of sports and of rural beauty, Of the 'Rejected Addresses,' in 1812, lamented In the above lines, the Brothers Smith, the authors Orphans-The Philanthropic Society-The School for the Indigent Blind-The Obelisk.

George's Fields-The Magdalen Hospital-Peabody Buildings-The Asylum for Female Gordon-Gradual Advance of Building in St. George's Spa-A Curious Exhibition-The Wilkes' Riots-The Gordon Riots-Death of Lord George George's Fields in the Last Century-The Apollo Gardens-The

George's Fields on his Restoration-The Populace resort hither during the Great Fire-The Character of St. George's Fields in the Time of the Roman Occupation-Canute's Trench-Charles II. 'Saint George's Fields are fields no more,

Little misfortune george