Iain Sinclair - London Orbital

James Thorne, Handbook to the Environs of London, reissued Chichester, 1983

Derek Threadgall, Shepperton Studios, London, 1994

Marc Edo Tralbaut, Vincent Van Gogh, London, 1969

Ruth Valentine, Asylum, Hospital, Haven (A History of Horton Hospital) , London, 1996

H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London, 1898

John Whatmore (ed.), The Shell Book of British Walks , London, 1987

John Talbot White, Country London, London, 1984

Patrick Wright, The River (The Thames in Our Time) , London, 1999

Abbey Creek, 48

Abbey National Centre of Excellence, 15, 108

Abbots Langley, 140, 148, 169, 171, 172, 175, 180, 212

Abercrombie, Sir Patrick, 42, 85, 175, 206

Abyndome, Alexander, 131

Accident (film), 421

Ackroyd, Peter, 142, 208, 488, 490

Ackroyd, Stirling, 94

Addison, William, 532, 533

Admiralty Powder Department, 41

The African Queen (film), 266

air-raid shelters, Epsom, 358–9

Albert, Prince, 362

Aldrich, Robert, 356

Ali G, 241

Allen, Dr Matthew, 532, 533

Alleyn, Edward, 466

Alphaville (film), 453, 454

Alton, Hampshire, 119, 286, 292

Amato pub, Epsom, 440

Amersham, 189

Amresbury Camp, Epping Forest, 529, 530

The Anathemata (Jones), 445, 446

Anatomiae Amphitheatrum (Fludd), 255–6

Ancient Bam (Palmer), 422

The Ancients, 405, 407, 410, 417, 419

Andrew, Prince, 274, 277

The Annotated Dracula (Wolf), 488

Anthony, Dr Francis, 210–11, 255

Arcana Arcanissima (Maier), 211

Arup Associates, 253

Ashmole, Elias, 211

Ashstead, 331

Asylum, Hospital, Haven (Valentine), 344–5

Atalanta Fugiens (Maier), 211

Atkins, Marc, 29, 34, 36–37, 44, 45, 47, 49, 57, 59, 60–61, 66, 69, 103, 106, 109, 110, 118, 213, 253, 299, 302, 309, 315, 321, 326, 382, 386, 410, 412–13, 426, 447, 448, 449, 455, 473, 519–20, 541, 542, 544, 545, 546, 548, 550

Atlas (paddle-steamer), 462

The Atrocity Exhibition , 169–70, 170

Aubrey, John, 332, 333

Aveley, 513

Aznavour, Charles, 164

Ayrton, Maxwell, 113

Babbage, Charles, 40

Bachelard, Gaston, 515

Bacon, Francis, 147

Badger’s Mount, 423

Baker, Kenneth, 472

Baker, Stanley, 355–7

Balding, DI Stephen, 506

Balfour, Sir Arthur, 41

Balfour, Harold, 235–6

Ballard, J.G., 69, 169–70, 170, 213, 214, 245, 262–9, 311, 349, 470, 528

Barratt estates, Grays, 480–3

Bartholomew Close, 210–11, 255

Barton, Griselda, 422

Basildon, 498

Batchworth, 187

Bateson, Gregory, 263

The Battle of Dorking (Chesney), 328

bears, mystery surrounding, 54–5

Beckham, Victoria, 132

Beckton Alp, 18, 45, 48

Belfast, HMS, 144, 145

Bell, Joseph, 361, 362

The Bell Jar (Plath), 171

Bellau, Stephen, 358

Belton, Neil, 276–7

Benjamin, Walter, 473

Berkhamsted, 188

Bermondsey, 493

Betts, Leah, 497, 499, 507

Bicknell, Clarence, 382–3, 385–7

Bicknell, Elhanan, 383–4

Bicknell, Ivan, 122

Bicknell, Laurence ‘Renchi’, 120–4, 125, 127, 131, 133–4, 137, 138, 139, 140, 148, 149, 150, 157, 158, 160, 162, 165, 175, 180, 181, 185, 188, 191, 198, 208–9, 212, 213, 215, 216, 217, 231, 232, 239, 240, 248, 250, 252, 253, 259, 270, 278, 279, 282, 283, 285, 286, 291, 292, 299, 302, 303–4, 309, 315, 325, 327, 331, 340, 341–2, 343, 364–66, 373, 377, 378, 382, 385, 386, 390, 391, 411, 415–6, 421, 423, 424, 429, 435, 438, 449, 456, 459, 468, 474, 493, 495, 514, 516, 519, 525, 526–7, 528, 530, 536, 541

Bicknell, Peter, 133–4

Billericay, 480

Billingsley, Captain Rupert, 231

Billyard-Leake, Charles Arthur Moresby, 191, 195

Black Death, 486

Black Lion Hill, 154, 160

Blackheath, 82, 425

Blackwall Tunnel, 47, 551

Blair, Tony, 25, 32, 267, 352, 548

Blake, Catherine, 407

Blake, William, 160, 204, 407, 408, 413, 414, 418, 425, 432

Bliss, Tom, 115

Blisworth Tunnel, 223

Bluewater, 11, 450, 467–73

Boadicea, 529

boarding kennels, noise of, 15

The Body Artist (DeLillo), 52, 201

The Book of the Boat (Griffiths), 222–4

Boorman, John, 253

Borough Market, Southwark, 419

Bovis Fairclough, 253

Bow Creek, 39

Bow Lock, 45

Bowles, E.A., 14, 99–102

Bowles, H.C., 96, 100

Bowling Green House, Bulls Cross, 99

Box Hill, 318, 328, 329

Bragg, Billy, 305

Brakhage, Stan, 404

Brave New World (Huxley), 301–2

Breakfast at Chartwell (Nicholson), 396

Bridge, Ann, 153

British Aerospace (BAe), 72, 300, 305

British Telecom, 524

Bromley-by-Bow, 48

Brooklands racetrack, 251, 299–301

Brown, Pete, 121

Browne, Hablot Knight, 384

Brownjohn, Alan, 437

Buckhurst, Charles Sackville, Lord, 332

Buford, Bill, 450

Bull, William, 86

Bulls Cross, 14, 99, 101, 133

Bunting, Basil, 227

Burges, William, 19

Burke, Thomas, 45

Burleigh, Lord see Cecil, William

Bume, Dr J.C, 456, 459, 461–6

Burroughs, William, 264, 268

Burwell, Paul, 222, 548

Bush, Clive, 225–6

Butts, Tommy, 432

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, 345

Byers, Stephen, 64

Byles, Dr J.B., 461

The Byrom Collection (Hancox), 211

Byron, Lord, 533

Caine, Mary, 249, 251, 256, 272, 277, 279, 299

Calder, Simon, 6

Callow, Simon, 485

Cambridge, 279–83, 485

Cameron, Dr A.F., 461

Cameron, Julia Margaret, 447

Cameron, Stephen, 12, 507

Campbell, Ken, 56–7

Campbell, Malcolm, 300

Camus, Albert, 528

canals, as places of suicide, 183–4

Canary Wharf, 34, 49, 265, 542

Capel Bells (Hessayon), 97–8, 136

Capel Manor, 14, 87, 91–2, 97, 102

Capital (Duffy), 208

The Caretaker (Pinter), 443

Carey, Hugh, 280, 282

Carfax Abbey ( Dracula ), 488–9, 490, 491, 496

Carmichael, Stokely, 263

Carpenter, Peter, 356, 358, 359, 434, 435, 436–7, 439, 441, 444, 446

Carry On films, 193

Case, Dr (of Leavesden Hospital), 178

Cassady, Neal, 414

Cassiobury Park, 183

Catherine the Great, 319

Catling, Brian, 116, 548

Cauty, Jimmy, 66

Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 88, 89, 90

Cecil, William, Lord Burleigh, 87–8, 89–90

Cedars Park, 132

Chadwick, Lyn, 445

Chafford Hundred, 482–3

Chalfont St Giles, 188

Chalk Lane, Epsom, 355

Chambers, William, 91

Channelsea, 48, 50–1

Charles II, 89

Charles, Prince, 525–6

Chartwell, 391–2, 393, 395–401

Chatwin, Bruce, 412

Cheape, Sir John, 387

ChermayefF, Barbara, 282

Chermayeff, Serge, 278, 281, 282

Chertsey, 277, 278–9, 283

Chesney, Sir George Tomkyns, 328–9, 360

Chevening, 404, 406–7

Chigwell, 166–7

Chippindale, Christopher, 382

Chiselhurst, 82

Chiswick Bridge, 528

Church of Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead, 325–6

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, 485

Churchill, Lady Clementine, 398

Churchill, Winston, 41, 392, 393, 395–401

Churchill and Chartwell (Fedden), 391–2

Cities for a Small Country (Rogers and Power), 343

City Mill river, 48

Clacket Lane Service Station, 328

Clare, John, 68, 533–6