Meaning of Londonward | Babel Free

Definitions

Toward the city of London.

not-comparable

Examples

“[15th c., Nicholas Harris Nicolas (ed.), A Chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483, written in the fifteenth century, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827, p. 85, And thanne the kyng and the duke and the othere seid lordes reden in fere to Londonward: and in the firste day of Septembre they comen to London everych on: and in the morwe suynge kyng Richard was put into the tour of London tyl tyme that the parlement, whiche began at Westm’ on seynt Jeromys day the laste day of Septembre […]]”

“The great Hounds toong groweth almoſt euerie where, by high waies and vntoiled grounde: the ſmall Hounds toong groweth very plentifully by the waies ſide, as you ride Colcheſter high way from Londonward, betweene Eſterford and VVittam in Eſſex.”

“In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon was a number of poor vestiges of the panic torrent that must have poured Londonward on the Sunday night after the fighting began.”

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