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.

Castles to visit near Lewisham include The Tower of London.

Lewisham's best nearby museums can be found at The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark.

River Thames at London is a great place to visit close to Lewisham if you like rivers and streams.

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

Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon are great places to visit near Lewisham if you like towns.

Don't miss Cutty Sark's historic monuments if visiting the area around Lewisham.

London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport are some of Lewisham best airports to visit near Lewisham.

Lewisham History

There are some historic monuments around Lewisham:

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