Dulwich, Surrey Genealogy

DULWICH, a village, a suburban tract, and three chapelries in St. Giles-Camberwell parish, Surrey. The village stands at the southern outskirts of London, 4½ miles S of St. Paul's Cathedral. The suburban tract or hamlet includes the village, together with a plentiful sprinkling of fine villas. A college was founded and endowed by Alleyn, for certain beneficiaries; was reconstituted by act of parliament, in 1858 to be mainly educational; comprises an upper school for 230 boys, a lower school for 200 boys, a chapel, a lecture-theatre, a laboratory, a library, a board-room, play-fields, and reserved ground for boarding - houses. The buildings were re-erected in 1865-9. The three chapelries are Dulwich College, East Dulwich, and Dulwich-St. Stephen, the last one constituted in 1868. There is a Wesleyan chapel here. )