Naming

A Borough is also referred to as Southwark (pronounced ) & is the metropolitan area of London immediately south of London Bridge.

It has been known as A Borough since a 1550s, to contrast it by using a neighboring City, in late years to distinguish it from either a big Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and now to distinguish it from either a tremendously big London Borough of Southwark.

Very much of a vicinity in the Tate Modern gallery and a Globe Theatre is now referred to per historic title of Bankside.

Today

Around green by having tremendously of the South Bank, The Borough has seen extensive regeneration in the endure decade. Declining lightly industry & manufacturing plant develop given way to residential development, shops, eating house, galleries & blocks. A region is within easily walk few feet away of the City and the West End.

To the n is the River Thames, London Bridge station and Southwark Cathedral. Borough Market is a well-developed visitant attraction & has grown inside size. the adjacent units keep close at h& been converted and form a gastonomic focus for London. Borough High Street runs roughly northward to south from either London Bridge to almost when far when Elephant and Castle.

A Borough is typically an vicinity of mixed development, by using council estates, professional developments, social housing & gated communities side by side with both more.

History
Early history
Southwark get on the antecedently quaggy front yard south of the River Thames. Recent excavation has revealed prehistoric activity including grounds to believe of early plowing, burial mounds and ritual activity. the front yard was originally a series of islands in the River Thames. This formed a better place to bridge a Thames & a vicinity became an crucial section of Londinium owing its importance to its position as a termination of the Roman London Bridge. 2 Roman roads, Stane Street and Watling Street, met at Southwark in what is nowadays Borough High Street.

At a bit of point a Bridge fell or even was pulled down. Southwark & a city seem to use turn into largely deserted when you took a Early Middle Ages. Archaeologically, grounds to believe of payout is replaced by a largely featureless soil known as the Dark Earth which probably (although this is contested) represents an populated area abandoned.

Southwark appears to recoup sole in a period of the period of King Alfred and his successors. Old in the area of & around 886 AD a Bridge was rebuilt & the City and Southwark restored. Southwark was known as 'Suddringa Geworc' which means a 'defensive works of the men of Surrey'. It was probably fortified to defend a bridge & hence a re-emerging City of London to the north. This defensive role is highlighted per apply of the Bridge as a defense against King Swein, his son King Cnut and in 1066, against King William the Conqueror. He failed to inflict a Bridge when you took a Norman conquest of England, but Southwark was devastated.

Good deal of Southwark was originally owned per church - a greatest reminder of cloistral London is Southwark Cathedral, originally the priory of St Mary Overy.

When you took a Middle Ages, Southwark remained outside of a control of the City & was the haven for crook & free traders, world health organization would sell goods and conduct trades outside the regulation of the City Livery Companies. An significant market - in a future to turn into called the Borough Market - was established there some period in the 13th century. A metropolitan area was far-famed for its hostelry, especially The Tabard, from which Chaucer's pilgrims set off in their journeying in The Canterbury Tales.

Post 1500
When several decades' petitioning, around 1550, Southwark wwhen incorporated into the City of London as 'A Ward of Bridge Forgoing'. It became a amusement territory for London, & it was besides a red-light area. Within 1599, William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was built on the South Bank in Southwark, though it burned down in 1613. a modern replication, too known as a Earth, has been built touching the original places. Southwark was besides the favored locality for amusement such as bull and bear-baiting. There was likewise a notable fair inside Southwark which took place touching the Church of St. George the Martyr. William Hogarth depicted this fair in his engraving of Southwark Fair (1733).

Urbanisation
Within 1844 the railway reached Southwark with a opening of London Bridge station.

Within 1861 a Peachy Fire of Southwark destroyed a big total of buildings between Tooley Street & the Thames, including victims when much when Hays Wharf, in which Hays Galleria was late built, & blockades to the west all but as far as St Olave's Church.

Around 1899 Southwark was incorporated along with Newington and Walworth into the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, and inside 1965 this was incorporated with a Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell and Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey into the London Borough of Southwark.

Places in Southwark
Borough Market Borough tube station Globe Theatre London Millennium Bridge London Bridge London Bridge station London Bridge tube station Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret Southwark Bridge Southwark Cathedral Tate Modern Waterloo station Winchester Palace The Golden Hinde at St Mary Overie dock