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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Royal Holloway College, 270, 287, 291–2

Royal Horticultural Society Gardens, Wisley, 312–3

Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock, 67, 68, 70, 72

Runnymede Bridge, 252–3, 256, 257

Rural Rides (Cobbett), 235

Ruskin, John, 384

Sainsbury’s, Cobham, 316–7

St Ann’s Hill, 271, 273, 277, 279

St Bartholomew-the-Great Church, 210, 255

St Bartholomew’s Church, Otford, 412

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 212, 254

St Botolph’s Church, Chevening, 406, 407

St Botolph’s Church, Shenley, 159–61

St Clement’s Church, West Thurrock, 485–6, 489

St Ebba’s Hospital, Epsom, 349, 358, 437

St George’s Hill, 251, 284, 300, 302, 307–8, 308

St Katharine’s Church, Merstham, 373–4

St Lawrence’s Hospital, Caterham, 176

St Martin’s Church, West Drayton, 230–2

St Mary’s Church, Harmondsworth, 232, 237

St Thomas a Becket’s well, Otford, 411

Salisbury, Earl of see Cecil, Robert Salmon, Joseph, 307

Samuel, Theo, 231

Sanders, James Harris, 153

Sanders of the River (film), 266

Sandle, Michael, 144

The Sands of the Kalahari (film) 357

Sangwine, Tony, 5–6, 258, 325, 424, 525, 530

Sara H, 285–6, 293–6

Schellinks, William, 332

Schnabel, Julian, 319

Schrader, Paul, 247

Scott, George Gilbert, 287

Scruton, Roger, 506

Sebald, W.G., 528–9

Secret Gardens (Potter), 322

Selborne, 119

Self, Will, 551

Sellors, Sir Thomas Holmes, 197

Sellwood, Emily, 532

Sergeant, John, 5, 71, 338, 367, 502–3

Sevenoaks, 421

Sewardstone, 39

Shadwell, Thomas, 332

Sharp, David, 83

Shasbury, 217

Shaw, Beatrice, 197

The Shell Book of British Walks , 368

Shelley, Mary, 95

Shenley, 146, 148–61, 163

Shenley Hall, 149

Shenley Hospital, 148, 149–50, 154–6, 163, 166

Shenley Manor, 152

Shepherd, Mary, 196

Shepperton, 265–9

Sherman, Lou, 43

Sherwood, Philip, 233–4, 235

Shooters Hill, 82, 425

Shoreditch, 8

Shoreham, 407, 408, 413, 413–23

Sicken, Walter, 401

Siebel, 259, 260–2, 268

Sigal, Clancy, 155–8

Sinclair, Anna, 9, 19, 20, 21–2, 119, 286, 541, 548, 551

Sinclair, Arthur, 387

Skillet Hill, 531

Sligo, Marchioness of, 153

Slough, 218

The Smallest Show on Earth (film), 542–3

smallpox, 460–6

Smith, Andrew, 8

Smith, David, 312–3

So This Is Ecstasy (O’Mahoney), 498–9

Soames, Mary, 400

South Darenth, 447

South Downs, 369

South Mimms service station, 141–5

Spedding, James, 533

Spencer, Stanley, 486

Spittles, David, 168

Springfield Park, 56

Squerryes Court, Westerham, 394

Staines, 241–2, 248, 252–3

Stanford le Hope, 454

Stanhope, Charles, 406

Stanwellmoor, 239

Stanyon, John, 195

Stapleford Aerodrome, 524

Stephen, Leslie, 329

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 329

Stoke D’Abernon, 324–5

Stoker, Bram, 486–9, 490, 491, 492, 493

Stokes, Dr Kenneth, 197

Stoneness Point, 484, 490

Straw, Jack, 267, 274, 276

Stukeley, William, 217, 234

The Surgeon of Crowthome (Winchester), 229

Swan, Joseph Watson, 40–41

Swanley, 82

swans, accidents caused by, 10–11

Swedenborg, Emanuel, 54

Sweetser, Wesley D., 188–9

Tate, Pat, 499, 502, 507

Tatham, Frederick 414, 416

Teachers’ Centre, Hackney, 526

Temple Bar, 108, 109, 132

Temple Church, 208–10, 486

The Temple Church in London (Lewer and Dark), 209

Temple Hill, 469, 474

Tennyson, Alfred, 532–3

Thames Chase, 513, 514

Thatcher, Denis, 371

Thatcher, Margaret, 3–4, 6, 92, 274, 274–5, 276, 328

Theobalds Park, 6, 15, 88–91, 106, 108

Theydon Bois, 525, 527

Thomson, Jonathan, 379

Thorn, Sir Jules, 41–2

Thome, James, 96, 480

Thorpe, 251, 270, 271

Three Mills, Bromley-by-Bow, 48, 48–9, 51, 56

Thurrock, 11, 46, 501

Tilbury, 471, 473, 475, 480

Tilden, Philip, 399

Timberden Bottom, 423

Tissie, Philippe, 146, 147

To the Finland Station (Wilson), 396–7

tobacco, as treatment for the insane, 178

Tobin, Mary, 353

Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (Howard), 84–5

Tong, Michael, 422

Touch of Evil (film), 272

Tradescant, John, 14, 15, 88–9, 90, 108

Trafalgar House, 72

Trent Park, 87, 93, 111

Trevelyan, Sir George, 530–1

Trocchi, Alex, 183

The True Leveller Standard Advanced (Winstanley), 306

Tucker, Tony, 499, 502

Turner, J.M.W., 384–5

Turner Axis, 144–5

Tyler, Wat, 448, 451

The Unabomber Manifesto , 37, 57

Underriver, 421–3

Underriver (Samuel Palmer’s Golden Valley) (Barton and Tong), 422–3

Upminster, 515, 517–8

Uxbridge, 216, 218, 219

Uziyel, Liat, 511, 531

Valentine, Ruth, 344, 346, 349, 352

The Valley Thick with Com (Palmer), 418, 420

Van Gogh, Vincent, 147–8

Vermilion Sands (Ballard), 470

View from Rooks Hill (Palmer), 422

Virginia Park, 288–91

Virginia Water, 271, 273, 287

Voice of the Fire (Moore), 522

Walker, Amanda, 312–3

Wallen, Martin J., 435, 437, 440, 440–1, 446

Walpole, Horace, 321

Walsh, Raoul, 356

Walter, Eugene Victor, 122

Waltham Abbey, 7, 9, 18–26, 76, 77, 103, 126–32, 530, 535–7, 541–2

Waltham Cross, 88, 130–2

Walton Oaks, 366–7

Walton-on-the-Hill, 364

war graves, Epsom, 437–9

The War of the Worlds (Wells), 303–4, 337, 349, 402

Warren, Peter, 64

waste incineration, 61–3

Waterlog (Deakin), 515–6

Watford, 170, 184–7, 189

Watson, Richard, 62

Watton’s Green, 519

Wedgwood, Josiah, 319

Weizmann, Dr Chaim, 41

Welch, John, 287

Welles, Orson, 304

Wells, H.G., 264, 303–4, 337, 349

Welsh Harp (pub), 19, 536–7

Wentworth, 273–7

West, Nathanael, 528

West Drayton, 217, 228, 229–32

West Ham, 49

West Hill Hospital, Dartford, 456–7

West Thurrock, 201, 485

Westerham, 389–93, 402–3

Western Jewish Cemetery, 15, 132–3, 531–2

Weston, Jessie, 59

Wey, River, 284

Weybridge, 284, 286, 299

Whalers (Turner), 385

White, Frank, 416

White, Gilbert, 119

White, Colonel Henry, 153

White, Luke, 153

White Webbs Park, 87, 93, 111

Whiteley, William, 310

Whiteley Village, 309–11, 315

Whiteread, Rachel, 54, 112

Whomes, John, 496–7, 500, 506–7, 508

Wick Wood, 546

Wickham, Anna, 346

Williams, David, 505

Williams, Kerrie, 457

Williams, John, 54–5

Williamson, Aaron, 123

Wilson, Claire Francis, 277

Wilson, Edmund, 396

Wilson, George, 312

Winchester, Simon, 229

Winstanley, Gerrard, 251, 299, 306–8

Wisbey, Tommy, 356

Wisley, 305, 311–2

Woburn Park, 284

Wolf, Leonard, 488

Wolfe, James, 390, 392, 393, 394–5

Wood, Derwent, 393

Woodcote Park, Epsom, 332

Woodroffe, Paul, 327

The World Turned Upside Down (Hill), 305

Worlds of New Measure (Bush), 226

Wren, Sir Christopher, 109–10

Wright, Ian, 390

Wright, Patrick, 345

Xerox building, Uxbridge, 218–9

Yacoub, Magdi, 190, 199

Yates, Peter, 356

Yates, William, 417

Yorke, Gerald, 445

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