List of London workhouses

This is a list of workhouses in London.[1] In 1776 there were 86 workhouses in the metropolis plus about 12 pauper farms in Hoxton and Mile End[2]

  • Aldgate workhouse
  • Bethnal Green workhouse
  • Bow workhouse
  • Camberwell workhouse
  • Chelsea workhouse
  • Christchurch workhouse
  • City of London workhouse
  • Clapham workhouse
  • Clerkenwell workhouse
  • Cripplegate workhouse
  • Forest Gate workhouse
  • Fulham workhouse
  • Greenwich workhouse
  • Hackney workhouse
  • Hampstead workhouse
  • Hanwell workhouse
  • Holborn workhouse
  • Islington workhouse
  • Kensington workhouse
  • Lambeth workhouse
  • Lewisham workhouse
  • Mile End Old Town workhouse
  • Newington workhouse
  • Poplar workhouse
  • Saffron Hill workhouse
  • Shoreditch workhouse
  • Southwark workhouse
  • St Andrew, Holborn workhouse
  • St Ann's, Limehouse workhouse
  • St George in the East workhouse
  • St George, Hanover Square workhouse
  • St George-the-Martyr workhouse
  • St Giles & St George workhouse
  • St Giles, Cripplegate workhouse
  • St Luke workhouse
  • St Margaret & St John, Westminster workhouse
  • St Martin-in-the-Fields workhouse
  • St Marylebone workhouse
  • St Olave's Poor Law Union workhouse, Rotherhithe
  • St Pancras workhouse
  • St Paul, Covent Garden workhouse
  • St Saviour's workhouse
  • Stepney workhouse
  • Strand workhouse
  • Tooting workhouse
  • Training Ship Goliath workhouse
  • Wandsworth and Clapham workhouse
  • Wapping workhouse
  • West London workhouse
  • Westminster workhouse
  • Whitechapel workhouse

References
  1. Peter Higginbotham (2013), "Index of workhouse locations", A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse, p. 238, ISBN 978-0-7524-8739-7
  2. Tim Hitchcock (2004), Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London, A&C Black, p. 133, ISBN 9780826427151
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