Lewisham is a Town in the county of Greater London.

Lewisham postcode: SE13 6BB

Retail in Lewisham

There are great places to visit near Lewisham including some great cities, castles, museums, rivers and streams, shopping centres, towns, historic monuments and airports.

The area around Lewisham's best cities can be found at London.

Don't miss The Tower of London's castles if visiting the area around Lewisham.

Don't miss The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark's museums if visiting the area around Lewisham.

Places near Lewisham feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Thames at London.

Lewisham's best nearby shopping centres can be found at Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre.

Lewisham has some unmissable towns nearby like Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon.

Cutty Sark is a great place to visit close to Lewisham if you like historic monuments.

There are a number of airports near Lewisham including London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport.

Lewisham History

There are some historic monuments around Lewisham:

• Queen's House
• Romano-Celtic temple in Greenwich Park
• London Wall: site of the Roman and medieval gateway of Cripple Gate
• The Hope Playhouse, and the remains of three further bear gardens, Bankside
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall, bastions and city gate of Aldgate from 17 Bevis Marks to India Street
• Eltham Palace
• Smiths' Wharf
• Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell
• London Wall: section of Roman wall at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey
• London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastion
• Stratford Langthorne Abbey (part of area within precincts), Baker's Row, West Ham
• Parnell Road Bridge
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and Roman, medieval and post-medieval gateway at Aldersgate
• Stationers' Hall
• Greenwich Observatory
• St John the Baptist's Church gateway, Howley Road
• Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Greenwich Park
• The London Greyfriars, site of, Newgate Street, Farringdon
• Merchant Taylors' Hall
• Greenwich Palace
• Roman riverboat, 136m west of Greenwood Theatre
• Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's Lane
• Structures of archaeological interest below Billingsgate Market
• Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
• Roman governor's palace (site of)
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring Street
• Armourers' and Brasiers' Hall
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastions, west and north of Monkwell Square
• Barking Abbey
• Huggin Hill Roman bath house, 120m WNW of St James's Church
• Tower Hill West
• West Grove, Conduit House, Blackheath
• The Curtain Playhouse
• Romano-British bath house and medieval remains at 11-15 Borough High Street
• Roman amphitheatre, Guildhall Yard
• Elmers End moated site, South Norwood
• Innholders' Hall
• London Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway
• Tallow Chandlers' Hall
• Roman hypocaust and building on site of Coal Exchange
• Baynard's Castle, 78m south-west of St Benet Metropolitan Welsh Church
• Vintners' Hall
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and medieval bastion in Postman's Park and King Edward Street
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastion at Noble Street
• Queenhithe dock
• Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay House
• Orpington Roman villa
• Dyers' Hall
• London Wall: section in Amen Court
• Remains of St Pancras Church, Pancras Lane
• Watermen's Hall
• Greenwich Hospital (RN College)
• London Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP
• The Rose Theatre, Rose Court, Southwark
• Site of the launch ways of the SS Great Eastern
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and conduit and medieval postern, Bloomfield House to site of Moor Gate
• Tower of London
• Roman wall in basement of 90 Gracechurch Street
• Goldsmiths' Hall
• The Globe Theatre
• London Wall: remains of Roman fort wall and east gate under Aldermanbury
• Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's Canal
• The Theatre Playhouse
• Apothecaries' Hall
• London Wall: section of Roman wall within the London Wall underground car park, 25m north of Austral House and 55m north west of Coleman Street
• Skinners' Hall
• Shrewsbury Barrow, Shooters Hill
• Painter Stainers' Hall
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion (4a) at Crutched Friars
• Remains of Roman and medieval wall and gateway W of boundary of Stationers' Hall to Ludgate Hill
• Linear Training Fortification, Royal Military Repository
• Monument
• Abbey buildings, Bermondsey
• Tudor naval storehouse at Convoys Wharf
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Camomile Street
• Second World War anti-aircraft gun emplacements, Beckton
• Conduit Head, Eltham
• Pumping engine house for Brunel's Thames tunnel
• Roman Bath House, Shadwell
• London Wall: section bounding All Hallows Churchyard
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall at St Alphage Garden, incorporating remains of St Alphage's Church
• Fishmongers' Hall
• Romano-British site, Wickham Court Farm, West Wickham
• London Wall: the west gate of Cripplegate fort and a section of Roman wall in London Wall underground car park, adjacent to Noble Street
• Remains of Winchester Palace, Clink Street and waterfront
• London Wall: remains of Roman and medieval wall from W end of All Hallows Church to 38 Camomile Street
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and bastion beneath Crosswall, No. 1 America Square and Fenchurch Street railway station
• Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital