Gipsy Hill

Gipsy Hill
View down the upper straight of the street, Gipsy Hill, looking north towards the City of London
Gipsy Hill is located in Greater London
Gipsy Hill
Gipsy Hill
Location within Greater London
Population13,712 (2011 Census. Ward)[1]
OS grid referenceTQ332710
London borough
Ceremonial countyGreater London
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLONDON
Postcode districtSE19, SE27
Dialling code020 (8670 OR 8761)
PoliceMetropolitan
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UK Parliament
London Assembly
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51°25′28″N 0°05′02″W / 51.4245°N 0.0840°W / 51.4245; -0.0840

Gipsy Hill in south London is a hilly and leafy neighbourhood spanning the southern parts of the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark characterised for its stunning views of the City of London and Dulwich.

It borders the neighbourhood of Crystal Palace, which was crowned as the best place to live in London by the Sunday Times Best Place to Live survey.[2]

Historically, north of its traditional Westow-Central Hill southern limit, it was split between the southern projections of the West Norwood daughter parish of Lambeth and the St Giles church daughter parish of Camberwell in Surrey until urban reforms of 1889 created the County of London. It takes in, due to a diagonal, slightly weaving border, somewhat less of the London Borough of Southwark, and it has a ridge-top border along the retail/services/leisure street Westow Hill and residential street Central Hill with Upper Norwood in the London Borough of Croydon.

  1. ^ "Lambeth Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. ^ Davis, Matthew. "Crystal Palace named best place to live in London 2022". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 6 February 2023.