Southwark (gbr)

Southwark

Southwark ranks 1,062nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Prato, Surrey, and Camagüey. Memorable people born in Southwark include John Harvard, Joseph Lancaster, and Thomas Girtin. Memorable people who died in Southwark include Frank P. Ramsey, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, and Thomas Girtin. Southwark has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many mathematicians, and military personnels. Southwark is located in United Kingdom.

Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark. The district, which is the oldest part of South London, developed due to its position at the southern end of the early versions of London Bridge, for centuries the only dry crossing on the river. Around 43 AD, engineers of the Roman Empire found the geographic features of the south bank here suitable for the placement and construction of the first bridge. Read more on Wikipedia