London 2: South, in a new convenient format, with specially written introductions, thorough indexes, and a generous supply of maps, is a uniquely comprehensive guide to the twelve southern boroughs, from the royal splendours of Hampton Court and Greenwich and the Georgian delights of Richmond, to the monuments of Victorian commerce in Lambeth and Southwark, lesser-known suburbs from Cheam to Chislehurst and the results of twentieth-century planners' dreams from Roehampton to Thamesmead. The Buildings of England series, of which this is the forty-seventh volume, offers descriptions, spiced by lively and informed comment, of every building of architectural importance in every county of England. Besides the grand set pieces - cathedrals and their furnishings, great country houses and their parks, the commercial and industrial architecture of Victorian cities - the reader is introduced to lesser delights, from village churches to garden follies, from pubs to pumping stations. The introduc