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.

Don't miss London's cities if visiting the area around Lewisham.

There are a number of castles near to Lewisham including The Tower of London.

There are a number of museums near Lewisham including The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark.

Don't miss River Thames at London's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Lewisham.

The area around Lewisham features a number of interesting shopping centres including Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre.

Lewisham's best nearby towns can be found at Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Lewisham like Cutty Sark.

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:

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