Southwark

"SOUTHWARK, comprises the parishes of St. Saviour, St. Thomas, St. Olave, and Christ Church, it is an ancient parliamentary borough, forming one of the great divisions of the metropolis, locally in the E. division of Brixton hundred, and Lambeth union, county Surrey. It is situated on the south-eastern bank of the Thames, opposite the City of London, to which it is joined by the London, Southwark, and Blackfriars bridges, and the Thames tunnel."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868), Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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The transcription of the section for Southwark from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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