New Cross, London
Historical Description
New Cross, a populous suburb of London, in The county of London, at the mutual boundary of Kent and Surrey. It has stations on the L.B. & S.C.R. and S.E.R., 4 miles from London. The church of St James, erected in 1853, is a stone building in the Gothic style. The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute occupies the buildings formerly belonging to the Royal Naval School. The Aske Schools, founded in 1692 from an endowment left by Robert Aske, are in this suburb; the schools were refounded in 1865 by the Haberdashers' Company. See LONDON and GREENWICH.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of New Cross are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of London, 1568 is available to browse from the Heraldry page.