STOCKWELL, a chapelry in the parish of LAMBETH,
eastern division of the hundred of BRIXTON,
county of SURREY, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from London. The
population is returned with the parish. The streets
are lighted with gas, and the inhabitants are supplied
with water from the South London water-works. Here
is an extensive ale brewery. The chapel, erected by certain
proprietors, is dependent on the mother church at
Lambeth, and has been repaired within the last few
years. There are places of worship for Baptists and
Independents. A National school, for one hundred
and eighty boys and one hundred and twenty girls, is
supported by voluntary contribution; the school-house
was erected in 1818. This chapelry is within the
jurisdiction of the court of requests held in the borough
of Southwark, and within, the limits of the
new police act.