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  2. Southwark - Wikipedia

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    Southwark appears to recover only during the time of King Alfred and his successors. Sometime about 886, the burh of Southwark was created and the Roman city area reoccupied. [13] It was probably fortified to defend the bridge and hence the reemerging City of London to the north.

  3. London Borough of Southwark - Wikipedia

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    Southwark was an ancient borough, being described as a borough from at least the 12th century. The area historically formed part of the county of Surrey. Southwark had a complicated administrative relationship with the neighbouring City of London. There was a parliamentary borough (constituency) of Southwark from 1295 onwards.

  4. List of areas of London - Wikipedia

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    John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.

  5. Southwark, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Southwark was originally the Southwark District, a colonial-era municipality in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Today, it is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .

  6. Southwark London Borough Council - Wikipedia

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    Southwark itself had been an ancient borough from at least the 12th century until the 19th century. However, for most of its history it was a manorial property of the neighbouring City of London rather than being a self-governing borough with its own corporation.

  7. Guildable Manor - Wikipedia

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    Guildable Manor is a Court Leet in Southwark under the authority of the City of London, along with the King's Manor, Southwark, and the Great Liberty. [1]The name of 'Guildable', first recorded in 1377, refers to the collection of taxes there and was adopted to distinguish this from the other manors of the Southwark area. [2]

  8. South London - Wikipedia

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    In 1720, John Strype's 'Survey of London' described Southwark as one of the then four distinct areas of London; in it he describes the City of London, Westminster (West London), Southwark (South London), and 'That Part Beyond the Tower' (East London). The area now usually referred to as North London developed later. As late as the mid-18th ...

  9. City Hall, London (Southwark) - Wikipedia

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    Old City Hall is a building in Bermondsey, London, which previously served as the headquarters of the Greater London Authority (GLA) between July 2002 and December 2021. It is located in the London Borough of Southwark , on the south bank of the River Thames near Tower Bridge .