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Southwark

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About Southwark

Southwark is a district of Central London and a part of the London Borough of Southwark. Situated 2.4 km east of Charing Cross, it paperwork one of the oldest elements of London and fronts the River Thames to the north. It historically formed an ancient borough inside the county of Surrey, made from a number of parishes, which an increasing number of got here under the have an impact on and jurisdiction of the City of London.

As an internal district of London, Southwark skilled rapid depopulation at some point of the past due 19th and early 20th centuries. It is now at a complicated degree of regeneration and is the location of the City Hall offices of the Greater London Authority. Southwark is sited on a previously marshy vicinity south of the River Thames. Recent excavation has discovered prehistoric activity consisting of evidence of early ploughing, burial mounds and formality activity.

The location changed into initially a sequence of islands in the River Thames. This fashioned the quality area to bridge the Thames and the place became an crucial part of Londinium, owing its significance to its role because the endpoint of the Roman London Bridge. Two Roman roads, Stane Street and Watling Street, met at Southwark in what's now Borough High Street. Archaeological paintings at Tabard Street in 2004 determined a plaque with the earliest connection with 'Londoners' from the Roman length on it.

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