Iain Sinclair - London Orbital

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London Orbital
Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop — keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' — he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before.
'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English'John Lanchester, 'A magnum opus, my book of the year. I urge you to read it. In fact, if you're a Londoner and haven't read it by the end of next year, I suggest you leave'Will Self, 'A journey into the heart of darkness and a fascinating snapshot of who we are, lit by Sinclair's vivid prose. I'm sure it will be read fifty years from now'J. G. Ballard, Iain Sinclair is the author of
(winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award);
(with Rachel Lichtenstein);
and
. He is also the editor of
.

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Clarkson, Edward, 209–10

Clay Hill, 87, 111

Claybury Mental Hospital, 167, 340, 346, 350

Clute, John, 302

Cobb, John, 300

Cobbett, William, 235

Cobham Heath, 300, 306, 311

Cobham Tilt, 324

Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 447

Cohen, David, 59

Coldbath Fields, Clerkenwell, 177

Collet, John, 110

Collins, Cecil, 122

Colne, River, 184, 187, 190, 218

Colne Valley, 220–1

Colney Hatch, 177, 190

Colthurst, Edmund, 93–4

Colvin, Sir Sidney, 318

Colwell, Miriam, 429

Connery, Sean, 371, 504

Conrad, Joseph, 454

Cooke, Sir George, 195, 198

Cooper, David, 148, 156

Cooper, J.C., 145

Corbets Tey, 514, 515

Cornmill Meadow, Waltham Abbey, 126

Couchman, Clara, 463

Country Park, Epsom, 344

Country Walks Around London , 368

County of London Plan (1943) 42–3, 175, 206

Course, Richard, 71

Courtney, Dave, 50, 498, 550

Cowley, 219–20, 222, 225

Cowley, Abraham, 283

Coxe, Sir Richard, 153

Craig, Michael, 193

Cranmer, Thomas, 412

Crash (Ballard), 213, 245, 311

Crash! (TV documentary), 169

Craven, Wes, 486

Crawshaw, Steve, 371

Crest Homes, 150, 152, 167–8, 190, 491

Crews Hill, 136, 137

cricket, 197

The Criminal (film), 355

Crosby, Theo, 144–5

Cross Your Heart and Hope to Live (TV documentary), 194

Crossland, William, 270, 287–8

Crow, Arthur, 85

Crowley, Aleister, 445

Crown, Dr Sidney, 338

Crown Hill Bridge, 530

Croydon, 389–90

Cruise, Tom, 152

Cuffley, 113, 138

Curtis, Kenneth, 439

Curtis, Nick, 483

Curtis, W.T., 158

Dadas, Albert, 146, 147

Dadd, Richard, 362

Dagenham, 45, 47

Dagnam Park, 520

Dahl, Roald, 188

Dalí, Salvador, 473

Dalston, 119, 120

Danbury Hill, 576–7

Darent, River, 393, 413, 431, 448, 449, 452

Darent Valley, 409, 410, 411, 417, 423, 450

Darent Valley Hospital, 458

Dark, Robert, 209

Dartford, 402, 447–455, 456–66

Dartford Crossing see Queen Elizabeth II Bridge

Dartford Marshes, 452, 454

Dartford Tunnel, 473

Davidson, Emily, 363

Davis, Michael, 314

Dawson, Jennifer, 171

De Burgh family, 231

Deakin, Roger, 515–6

Dearden, Basil, 193

Decabral, Alan, 12–13

Dee, David, 210

Dee, Dr John, 210, 211, 268

Defoe, Daniel, 332

DeLillo, Don, 52, 201

Denham, 181, 212, 215

Denham Studios, 215

Derby Day (Frith), 356, 360, 361–2

Devereux, Paul, 122, 133

Diana, Princess, 34, 185–6

Dickens, Charles, 183–4, 384, 456

Diggers, 299, 306

Disney Corporation, 500

Donne, John 255

Dorking, 328

Dowding, Air Marshal Lord, 218

Downes, Kerry, 161

Downriver (Iain Sinclair), 546

Dracula (Stoker), 486–9, 490, 491, 492–3

Driffield, 428

Drummond, Bill, 29–33, 34, 35, 36–7, 44, 45, 47, 54, 56, 58–9, 60, 66, 69, 76, 103, 106, 108, 110–11, 112, 116–7, 118, 188, 509, 541

Duffy, Maureen, 208

Dulwich, 414, 415

Dun, Aidan Andrew, 144

Durgnat, Raymond, 163, 164

Earthly Joys (Gregory), 88–9

East India Dock Road, 45

East London Cemetery, 49–50

Edge, S.F., 300

Edinburgh, Duke of, 43

Ediswan Company, 41

Edmonton, 61, 545

Edward Jenner Hospital, Gloucestershire, 460

Edward the Confessor, 172

Edwards, Richey, 528

Egg, Augustus, 361

Eggar, Tim, 74

Egham, 258–62, 291

Eleanor of Castile, Queen, 130–1

Eliot, T.S., 468

Elizabeth I, 92, 93

Ely, Alun, 312, 314

Emberton, Joseph, 282

Endfield, Cy, 356

Enfield Chase, 14, 81, 87, 92–3, 530

Enfield Island Village, 68–9, 70, 73

Enfield Lock, 39, 66, 67–8, 70, 71

Enfield Lock Action Group Association, 71

Enfield Sewage Works, 63

Environment Agency, 62

Epping Forest, 10, 87, 519, 527–32

Epsom, 331–3, 340, 352–4, 443

Downs, 355, 357–9, 359, 363

mental hospitals, 337–52, 433, 435–9

tunnels, 357–9, 439–40

war graves, 437–8

well, 331–3

Epstein, Jacob, 282

Essex, Earl of, 182, 183

Essex Boys (film), 498

Essex Field Club, 529

Essex Range Rover Murders, 496–7, 499, 501, 504

Etchells, Frederick, 282

Evelyn, John, 93

Eynsford, 427–8, 430–1

Fairey Aviation, 236

Fairview New Homes pic, 68, 70, 71, 72, 74–5

Falconer, Lord, 548, 550

Farina, Richard, 528

Farningham, 429

Fawkes, Guy, 93

Fedden, Robin, 391

Ferguson Radio Corporation Limited, 41–2

Femihough, Eric, 300

The Fighting Temeraire (Turner), 385

‘Finella’, Cambridge, 281–3

Fir Wood, 139

Fisher, Allen, 226

Fleming, John Ambrose, 41

Fludd, Robert, 211, 254, 255, 255–6

Forbes, Bryan, 194

Forbes, Mansfield, 279, 282

foot-and-mouth disease, 10, 81

Ford, Ford Madox, 204–6, 551

Fort Halstead, 424–5

Forty Hall, 87, 96

Foucault, Michel, 163, 165, 172, 179

Four Weddings and a Funeral (film), 485

Fowlers End (Kersh), 542–3

Fox, Peter, 516

Francis, Dr Dylan, 254–6, 437

Franju, Georges, 163–4

Franklin, Benjamin, 406

Freeman, Revd Stephen, 40

Friends Bridge, 53

Friends of the Earth, 71

Frith, William Powell, 355, 360–3

Fry, Maxwell, 282

Fuller, Buckminster, 157, 194

Fuller, Peter, 528

Fulton, Hamish, 148

Furze Hill House, Reigate, 323

‘The Future of London’ (Ford Madox Ford), 205–6

Gade, River, 180, 182

The Gaia Hypothesis (Lovelock), 115

Gaiman, Neil, 106–7, 108

garden centres, 135–6

Garnault, Michael, 99

Garner, Roy, 498

Gascoyne, David, 432–4

Gaze, Mike, 114

George III, 93

George VI, 115, 357

George and Dragon, Westerham, 391

Gerz,Jochen, 103, 116–8

Get Carter (film), 272

Gilbert, Bob, 83

Gilbert, Bruce, 217, 474

Gill, Eric, 281–2, 326–7, 413

Gilpin, William, 319

Gimpo, 30–3, 35, 58

Glastonbury, 249, 250

Godard, Jean-Luc, 453

Golden Grove (pub), 278–9

The Golden Valley (Palmer), 421

Golders Green, 104–5

golf courses, 370–2

Good, Dr James, 231

The Good Listener (Belton), 276–7

Goodman Price Demolition Ltd, 343

Gordon, Elizabeth, 144

Gormley, Antony, 549

Grace, Michael Paul, 154

Grace, W.G., 154

Graham, W.S., 445

Grand Junction Canal Company, 182

Grand Union Canal, 180, 181–5, 187, 190, 212, 218, 220, 221–2, 227, 228

Grant, Angela, 92

Grant, Hugh, 485

Grant, Russell, 193

Gravesend, 473

Grays, 46, 473, 476, 479–80

Great Bookham Common, 325

Great Expectations (Dickens), 456

Great Foster’s Hotel, 272

Great Missenden, 188

Great Wood, Epsom, 344

Greater London Plan 1944 (Abercrombie), 85

green belts, 83–6

The Green London Way (Gilbert), 83, 368

Green Path, 229, 232, 237, 239, 241

Greene, Graham, 188, 264

Greenhithe, 463, 473, 490

Greenwich Observatory, 29, 36–7

Gregory, Philippa, 88–90, 97

Griffith, George, 264

Griffiths, Bill, 221–7, 246, 525

Grogan, Emmett, 263

A Guide to Glastonbury’s Temple of the Stars (Maltwood), 249

Guillaume, Emile, 105

The Gun (pub), 546–7

Gurney, Ivor, 443, 445

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