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Here are links to the10 gobbets of London history that we liked most this week:

1. The Victorian splendour of Highgate Cemetery.

2. New podcast from the Oxford DNB: Dennis Severs, creator of 18 Folgate Street.

3. The chapel of St Thomas-a-Becket on Old London Bridge.

4. Where the Knollys Roses grow: the lovely ‘secret garden’ of Seething Lane.

6. A visit to the old church at Perivale.

7. As another Ashes series comes to a close, a look at some of The Oval’s finest moments.

8. To Hell in a handcart? A final journey revisited: Newgate to Tyburn.

9. London’s oldest public drinking fountain.

10. A walk from Lambeth Palace to Waterloo Station, using Bradshaw’s Guide.

More? If you like our weekly gobbets, you might also like some of our longer posts on London’s history:

Here are links to the top ten gobbets of London history we liked this week:

1. Time Warp: it’s a Lord’s Ashes Test weekend, so a timely piece on the home of cricket’s famous weathervane Old Father Time.

2. OK, not (yet) history, but we loved the taxonomy and geography of London’s hipster coffee shops!

4. Plague and pestilence at the Guildhall Library’s new exhibition.

5. Canals of London, Part 1: great new video by Geoff Marshall of Londonist.

6. Some great detective work to identify William Hogarth’s frame-maker.

7. The Man Who Drew London: a look at Wenceslaus Hollar.

8. Lovely film on the heights of North London, 1850-1939.

9. Now viewable online: London on the C14th Gough Map, the oldest road map of Britain.

10. More cricket: a lovely old London trade card of a Brick Lane cricket bat maker.

More? If you like our weekly gobbets, you might also like some of our longer posts on London’s history:

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