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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. [22] 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. [36]
Borough High Street continues southwest as Newington Causeway, here co-inciding with ancient Stane Street, the Roman road between London and Chichester. [2] Another important connection is with the Dover Road (the modern A2 route) which diverges in a south-east direction from Borough High Street at a junction of five roads adjacent to Borough Underground station as Great Dover Street.
Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160% Geographic limits: West: 0.13W; East: 0.01W; North: 51.515N; South: 51.415N
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John Rocque's 24-sheet map. In 1746, the French-born British surveyor and cartographer John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these has the full name A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark: it is a map of Georgian London to a scale of 26 inches to a mile (i.e. 1:2437), surveyed by John Rocque, engraved by John ...
Blank map of the London Borough of Southwark, showing electoral wards. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160% Geographic limits: West: 0.13W; East: 0.01W; North: 51.515N; South: 51.415N; Date: 28 July 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Ward data from Boundary-Line product. Water data from VectorMap District ...
Map of Burgess Park Original street layout (1945). Houses were purchased and demolished to form the park. The idea for Burgess Park came out of the 1943 Abercrombie plan for open spaces in London, and the land has been gradually assembled and landscaped over the subsequent decades, first by the London County Council, then the Greater London Council, and since the mid-1980s, the London Borough ...