Southwark (gbr)

Southwark

Southwark ranks 946th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Saint-Malo, 16th arrondissement of Paris, and Topkapı Palace. Memorable people born in Southwark include Charles Babbage, John Harvard, and Joseph Lancaster. Memorable people who died in Southwark include John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Lynsey de Paul, and Paul Eddington. Southwark has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many military personnels and singers. 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