Crossword clues for lambeth
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
used metonymically for "Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury," 1859, from the archbishop's palace in Lambeth, a South London borough. The Lambeth Walk was a Cockney song and dance, popularized in Britain 1937 in the revue "Me and my Gal," named for a street in the borough. The place name is Old English lambehyðe, "place where lambs are embarked or landed."
Wikipedia
Lambeth is a district in Central London, England, located in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is situated south of Charing Cross. The population of Lambeth was 23,937 in 2011.
Lambeth was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Lambeth district now part of south London. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Lambeth may also refer to:
- J. Walter Lambeth (1896-1961), American politician
- Lambeth, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada
- Lambeth, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
- Lambeth (UK Parliament constituency), a parliamentary constituency centred on the Lambeth district of South London
- London Borough of Lambeth, a London borough in South London, England
- Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth, a metropolitan borough under London County Council from 1900 to 1965
- Lambeth Conferences, are decennial assemblies of bishops of the Anglican Communion
- Lambeth Palace, the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Usage examples of "lambeth".
Totty and Miss West chatted a little longer, then put on their hats to have a ramble in Lambeth Walk.
The town had originally been named Vauxhall by the British, after the district of that name in the borough of Lambeth in London, but over the years the name had become Americanized—some might say bastardized—to its present form.
It is said to have been introduced into England by the Romans, but was probably introduced from Italy early in the sixteenth century, when the Fig tree still growing in Lambeth Palace garden is said to have been planted.
Jolly Sawyers, near Lambeth Walk, just at the top of Cut-throat Lane.
A coloured band was belting out The Lambeth Walk and Shasa could see into the lounge where the dancers were prancing around merrily.
We learn the Lambeth Walk in twenty minutes, we teach it to rich people in five lessons, and they pay high, and Nikola Miltan takes the money and pays us only not so high.
But on one of her petticoats, police noticed the laundry mark of the Lambeth Workhouse.
He had enlivened the grim civil service decor with oil paintings and souvenirs acquired on his overseas postings, and from his desk he enjoyed a splendid view over Lambeth Palace and up the Thames.