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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SHOOTERS-HILL, an eminence, a hamlet, and a chapelry, in Eltham parish, Kent. The eminence rises 1 mile S of Woolwich; is an insulated mass of London clay, 446 feet high; was thickly wooded, and called Sheters-Held, in the time of Richard II.; took its present name from bands of outlaws, who anciently haunted its woods to assail wayfarers on a great road crossing it; was the scene of archery and other sports, in the presence of Henry VIII. and his queen Catherine; is traversed by both an ancient Roman road and a great modern one; bears aloft a triangular tower, erected to commemorate the taking of Severndroog in India; and commands a panoramic view, very fine on all sides, and finest on the side toward London.-The hamlet adjoins the eminence; and has a post-office under London SE, and a R. police station.—The chapelry was constituted in 1866. Pop., 423. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rev. J. S. Masters.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an eminence, a hamlet, and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "mountains") |
| Administrative units: | Eltham St John the Baptist AP/CP Kent AncC |
| Place: | Shooters Hill |
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