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London Borough of Southwark
Shown within Greater London
Geography
Status	London borough
Area — Total	Ranked 340th 28.85 km² (11.1 sq mi)
ONS code	00BE
Admin HQ	Peckham Road, Camberwell
Demographics
Population — Total (2006 est.) — Density	Ranked 31st (of 354) 269,200 9,331/km² (24,167/sq mi)
Ethnicity White British White Irish Other White White & Black Caribbean White & Black African White & Asian Other Mixed Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Other Asian Black Caribbean Black African Other Black Chinese Other	(2005 estimates)[1] 52.6% 2.6% 9.1% 1.2% 0.8% 0.7% 1.1% 2.6% 0.6% 1.6% 0.9% 6.9% 13.3% 1.7% 2.6% 1.6%
Politics
Leadership	Leader & Cabinet
Mayor	—(non-political)
Executive	Liberal Democrat / Conservative
MPs	Harriet Harman Simon Hughes Tessa Jowell
London Assembly — Member	Lambeth and Southwark Valerie Shawcross
Coat of Arms
Official website	http://www.southwark.gov.uk/

The London Borough of Southwark (pronunciation (help·info)) is a London borough in London, England. It is located directly south of the River Thames and forms part of Inner London.

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 2.1 Demographics 2.2 Landmarks 3 Civic affairs 3.1 Mayor 3.2 Executive 3.3 Coat of arms 3.4 Twinning 4 Politics 4.1 Southwark London Borough Council 4.2 Westminster Parliament 5 Transport 5.1 Bridges and tunnels 5.2 "A" Roads 5.3 Tube stations 5.4 Railway stations 5.5 Riverbus piers 6 Places 6.1 Parks and open spaces 6.2 Localities 6.3 Postcode areas 7 Education 7.1 Community schools 7.2 Independent state schools 7.3 Public schools 8 Notable current and former residents 9 External links

Further information: Southwark

Southwark got its "Southwark" name in the 9th century but was first settled in the Roman period. Southwark is pronounced /ˈsʌðək/.

The London Borough of Southwark was formed in 1965 from the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell, and the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey.

The borough borders the City of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to the north, the London Borough of Lambeth to the west and the London Borough of Lewisham to the east. To the south is the London Borough of Bromley and the London Borough of Croydon.

The 2001 census gives Southwark a population of 244,866. Southwark is ethnically 63% white, 16% black African and 8% black Caribbean. 31% of householders are owner–occupiers.

Southwark has a number of old churches, most notably Charles Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle, Southwark Cathedral and St Thomas Church. The Salvation Army maintains the William Booth Memorial College near Denmark Hill railway station. London's Norwegian Church and Finnish Church are both located in Rotherhithe. On the other hand, it is also famous for a number of historic public houses, starting with the site of The Tabard inn featured in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The George Inn and the the White Hart inn are also notable.

The old theatre district of Southwark leaves the remains of the old Rose Theatre and the rebuilt Globe Theatre. Art galleries include the oldest public gallery in Britain, Dulwich Picture Gallery and one of the most modern, the Tate Modern, situated in the shell of the 1930s Bankside Power Station. In the centre of the borough is Camberwell College of Arts and south, in Dulwich has been a centre for public schooling for centuries, containing Alleyn's School and the Charles Barry designed Dulwich College.

There are many museums, including the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, Britain's Imperial War Museum built on the site of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, The Clink and Livesey Museum for Children. The site of the medieval Winchester Palace can be seen.

Some of the old industrial and wharfside heritage can be seen at the now defunct Surrey Commercial Docks including Greenland Dock. Near Tower Bridge old warehouses have been converted at to new uses at Butler's Wharf and Hay's Wharf. Similarly, the Oxo Tower now hosts restaurants shops and housing. Visitors are allowed on board at HMS Belfast moored nearby.

Southwark is the home to the Greater London Authority at City Hall and contains Guy's Hospital with its roots in the Middle Ages. Peckham Library, designed by Will Alsop has won architecture awards. For shopping, Borough Market near London Bridge is probably London's most famous general food market.

The planned Shard London Bridge will be London's tallest building when completed.

The Mayor of Southwark for 2007/2008 is Cllr Bob Skelly (Grange ward).

The council is run by a Leader and Cabinet Executive, chaired by council leader Nick Stanton. Following the election in 2006 the Executive is a coalition, with Liberal Democrat councillors holding 8 seats on the Executive and Conservative councillors holding 2.

The two supporters on the coat of arms are an Elizabethan player dressed to play Hamlet to the left, indicating the theatrical heritage of the area, and the youth on the right side is the Esquire from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The well in the centre of the shield is a 'canting' reference to Camberwell, while the ship on the top left refers to the maritime history of Bermondsey and the rose on the right is for St Mary Newington.

Southwark is twinned with Langenhagen in Germany and Clichy in France.

Main article: Southwark local elections

Summary of council election results:

	Overall control	Labour	Lib Dem	Conservative	Others
2006	No overall control	28	28	6	1
2002	No overall control	28	30	5	-
1998	Labour/No overall control	33(31)*	27	4	0(2)*
1994	Labour	-	-	-	-
1990	Labour	-	-	-	-
1986	Labour	-	-	-	-
1982	Labour	-	-	-	-
1978	Labour	-	-	-	-
1974	Labour	-	-	-	-
1971	Labour	-	-	-	-
1968	Labour	-	-	-	-
1964	Labour	-	-	-	-

* Labour won 33 seats in 1998, but 2 members subsequently resigned the whip, leaving no overall control.

The borough is covered by three parliamentary constituencies:

• Camberwell and Peckham
• Dulwich and West Norwood (shared with London Borough of Lambeth)
• North Southwark and Bermondsey

• Blackfriars Bridge
• London Bridge
• London Millennium Bridge
• Southwark Bridge
• Tower Bridge

• Rotherhithe Tunnel
• Thames Tunnel now part of the East London Line
• Gipsy Hill - Crystal Palace railway station

• Many roads leading to bridges across the Thames meet at St. Georges Circus

• The A201 Inner Ring Road crosses the north-west of the area from The Elephant and Castle to Tower Bridge and The City.

• The A2 runs along Old Kent Road through the north of the borough and is London's main artery from the centre out to Kent.

• The A202 runs along Peckham High Street and passes the town hall.

• The A205 London's South Circular Road runs East-West along Dulwich Common and Thurlow Park Road in the south.

• The boundary with Bromley at Crystal Palace Parade is part of the A212.

• Bermondsey
• Borough
• Canada Water
• Elephant & Castle
• Kennington
• London Bridge
• Rotherhithe
• Southwark
• Surrey Quays

• Denmark Hill
• East Dulwich
• West Dulwich
• Elephant & Castle
• London Bridge
• North Dulwich
• Nunhead
• Peckham Rye
• Queens Road Peckham
• Sydenham Hill
• Gipsy Hill

• Bankside Pier - for Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre
• London Bridge City Pier
• Greenland Dock

Further information: Southwark parks and open spaces

• Southwark Park
• Burgess Park, (including trees at New Church Road)
• Dulwich Park
• Belair
• Long Meadow a.k.a. Belle Meadow
• Russia Dock Woodland
• Sydenham Hill Woods
• Sydenham Hill Nature Reserve
• Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, Lambeth Road, SE1. This park houses the Imperial War Museum although the Museum only owns the land directly in front of it, and the remainder is a public park.

• Bankside
• Bermondsey
• The Borough
• Camberwell
• Crystal Palace east of Gipsy Hill railway station west of the parade & Sydenham Hill
• Dulwich
• Dulwich Wood
• East Dulwich
• Elephant and Castle
• Herne Hill east of Herne Hill railway station
• Newington
• Nunhead
• Peckham
• Rotherhithe
• The Borough (historic Southwark)
• Surrey Quays
• Walworth
• West Dulwich east of South Croxted Road

SE1 (part), SE4 (part), SE5 (part), SE11 (part), SE15 (part), SE16 (part), SE17 (all), SE19 (part), SE21 (part), SE22 (all), SE24 (part)

Many state schools are operated under the umbrella of the borough council [1] as Local Education Authority (LEA) for the area.

Community secondary schools include:

• Kingsdale School
• Walworth School
• Waverley School
• Brunswick Park School

A particularly large proportion of schools operate outside the LEA, as Foundation schools or City Academies, including:

• Bacon's College
• City of London Academy (Southwark)
• The Academy at Peckham

Dulwich in the southern part of the borough has a number of public schools with a long history:

• Alleyn's School
• Dulwich College website
• James Allen's Girls' School website

• Edward Alleyn (actor)
• Sarah Armstrong-Jones (painter)
• Charles Babbage (mathematician)
• John Bacon (sculptor)
• Sacha Baron-Cohen (comedian)
• Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte)
• Edmund Bonner (bishop of London)
• Robert Browning (poet)
• Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (engineers)
• Jack Cade (rebel)
• Michael Caine (actor)
• Raymond Chandler (author)
• Charlie Chaplin (actor)
• Geoffrey Chaucer (playwright; see also Canterbury Tales)
• Charles Dickens (author)
• Jason Donovan (actor, pop icon)
• Sir Michael Faraday (scientist, physics)
• Rio Ferdinand (footballer)
• Gilly Flaherty (female footballer)
• Harriet Harman (politician)
• John Harvard (founder of university)
• Simon Hughes (Lib-Dem politician)
• Roy Jenkins (politician)
• Samuel Johnson (lexicographer and author)
• David Jones (poet)
• Tessa Jowell (politician)
• Benjamin Jowett (scholar and theologian)
• Sally Keeble (politician)
• Austen Henry Layard (archaeologist, author, and politician)
• Ann Leslie (Daily Mail columnist)
• Alfred Marshall (economist)
• Philip Massinger (playwright)
• Sir John Major of asthma U.K. (former prime-minister)
• Keith Murdoch (journalist)
• Cathy de Monchaux (artist)
• Harold James Ruthven Murray (chess historian and educator)
• Florence Nightingale (nurse)
• Colin Niven
• Samuel Palmer (visionary English artist)
• Charles Peace (burglar and murderer)
• William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania)
• Pilgrim Fathers (religious separatists; see also Mayflower)
• Robert Recorde (physician and mathematician)
• Jasper Richard Rosenau (Writer)
• John Ruskin (art critic, social critic, author, poet and artist.)
• Giles Gilbert Scott (architect)
• William Shakespeare (playwright)
• Ernest Shackleton (explorer)
• Hartley Shawcross (lawyer and politician)
• Charles Spurgeon (pastor and author)
• John Stainer (organist and composer)
• Donald Swann (humorist)
• Henry Thrale (brewer and politician)
• Hester Thrale (diarist)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (author)

• Historic Southwark
• Walk Southwark, walk guides with extensive explanation and commentary
• Labour in Southwark

v • d • e London Borough of Southwark
Districts	Bermondsey · The Borough · Camberwell · Crystal Palace · Dulwich · Elephant and Castle · Herne Hill · Nunhead · Peckham · Rotherhithe · Surrey Quays · Walworth
Attractions	Design Museum · Dulwich Picture Gallery · Globe Theatre · Imperial War Museum · Old Vic · Tate Modern
Street markets	Borough · East Street
Bridges	Tower · London · Southwark · Millennium · Blackfriars · Waterloo
Constituencies	Camberwell and Peckham · North Southwark and Bermondsey · Dulwich and West Norwood
Parks and open spaces in Southwark

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