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Coat of arms of Middlesex, 1910-1965 (absorbed into Greater London) Coat of arms of London County Council , 1914-1965 Coat of arms of the Greater London Council , 1965-1986
At the 2001 census Southwark had a population of 244,866. Southwark was ethnically 63.04% white, 5.9% Asian or Asian British, and 25.9% black or black British. By 2021 the population was 307,640, with 51.5% white, 9.9% Asian or Asian British, and 25.1% black or black British. 31% of householders were owner–occupiers.
The vestry of St John Horsleydown proposed naming the boroughs as "Southwark St Saviour's" and "Southwark St Olave's", a suggestion supported by the London County Council. [5] A decision was finally made on 25 January 1900, with the western borough becoming "Southwark" and the eastern borough as Bermondsey. [6]
Southwark is thought to have become a burh in 886. The area appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 within the hundred of Brixton as held by several Surrey manors. [18] The ancient borough of Southwark, enfranchised in 1295, initially consisted of the pre-existing Surrey parishes of St George the Martyr, St Olave, St Margaret and St Mary. [25]
The Gladstone Arms is a public house in Lant Street in the Borough – the Southwark district of London. It is also known as The Glad . Built on the site of a Victorian pub, the current building was constructed in the 1920s.
Arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark granted 14th June 1902 by the College of Arms Source: A.C. Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms (T. C. & E. C. Jack, London, 1915) File usage The following 3 pages use this file:
The court room was on the first floor, the ground floor was leased out as a tavern, 'The King's Arms'. The site is located at the fork junction of Borough High Street and Southwark Street, occupied now by the building which is named 'Town Hall Chambers' being licensed premises at the ground floor and apartments above. It is commemorated by the ...
English: ARMS: Gules on a Cross Argent a Well Head between four Cinquefoils Gules on a Chief chequy Or and Vert a Lymphad sail furled Sable and a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper.