Londonward

Etymology

London +‎ -ward

Adverb

Londonward (not comparable)

1. Toward the city of London.
   • 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 […]

   • 1597, John Gerard, The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes, London, 1633, Book 2, p. 805,

     The great Hounds-tongue growes almost every where by the high-wayes and untoiled ground: the small Hounds-tongue groweth very plentifully by the waies side as you ride Colchester highway from Londonward, betweene Esterford and Wittam in Essex.

   • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter 7,

     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.

Adjective

Londonward (not comparable)

1. Facing or moving toward the city of London.
   • 1838, Catherine Gore, The Woman of the World, Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Volume 2, Chapter, p. 6,

     […] she watched his lordship’s travelling-carriage rolling once more along the Londonward level of the park […]

   • 1916, H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, Book II, Chapter 2 § 1,

     It would begin with the figure of a neatly brushed patriot, with an intent expression upon his intelligent face, seated in the Londonward train, reading the war news—the first comforting war news for many days—and trying not to look as though his life was torn up by the roots and all his being aflame with devotion […]