Somers Town, Middlesex

Historical Description

Somers Town, a district in St Pancras parish, London, occupying a triangular space between Hampstead St Pancras and Euston roads. It occupies ground which was not built over until the beginning of the 19th century, but it is now a densely populated portion of the metropolis. It contains the M.B. and L. & N.W.R. terminal stations, and is in the NW postal district. See also LONDON.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Somers Town from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Somers-Town)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.

Maps

Online maps of Somers Town 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)