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12–21 Hopton Street, Southwark: Almshouse: 1746–1749: 2 March 1950: 1385623: Hoptons Almshouses, Hopton Gardens: Mary Sheridan House (part) and Area Railings 11–13 St Thomas Street, Borough, Southwark: Terraced House
The London Borough of Southwark (/ ˈ s ʌ ð ə k / ⓘ SUDH-ərk) [2] [3] in South London forms part of Inner London and is connected by bridges across the River Thames to the City of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was created in 1965 when three smaller council areas were amalgamated under the London Government Act 1963.
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]
The Liberty of the Clink was an area in Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames, opposite the City of London.Although situated in Surrey the liberty was exempt from the jurisdiction of the county's sheriff and was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Winchester who was usually either the Chancellor or Treasurer of the King.
The Metropolitan Borough of Southwark (Br [ˈsʌðɨk]) [1] was a metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965.
Bermondsey (/ ˈ b ɜːr m ə n d z i / BUR-mənd-zee) is a district in southeast London, part of the London Borough of Southwark, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southeast of Charing Cross. To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe and Deptford, to the south Walworth and Peckham, and to the north is Wapping across the River ...
Replaces a group of the same name installed here in 1991. The seated statue of Dr Salter was stolen in 2011, after which the figures of his daughter Joyce and her cat were taken into safekeeping by Southwark Council. [15] The new work includes an additional sculpture portraying Salter's wife, Ada. [16] Memorial to Albert Edward McKenzie
The 2001 census recorded the population of Southwark to be nearly 244,866 residents, sixty-three per cent of whom are whites, sixteen per cent black African and 8 percent black Caribbean. For a decade, between 1997 and 2007, the borough's population grew at three times the rate of England as a whole.