Southwark
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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Loz Pycock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: district of Central London, England
- Also known as: “Borough” and “The Borough”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tate Modern and Shakespeares Globe.
Tate Modern
Art gallery
Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art. It forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.
Shakespeares Globe
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
London Bridge
The name "London Bridge" refers to several historic crossings that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark in central London since Roman times.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bankside and Gabriel’s Wharf.
Bankside
Quarter
Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, 1.5 miles east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock.
Gabriel’s Wharf
Locality
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial area on the south bank of the River Thames, in the London Borough of Lambeth, central London, England.
Blackfriars
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Blackfriars is in central London, specifically the south-west corner of the City of London.
Southwark
- Categories: ancient borough, area of London, market town, and locality
- Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50565° or 51° 30′ 20″ northLongitude
-0.09957° or 0° 5′ 58″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SWROpen location code
9C3XGW42+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 12715964344OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2637299Wikidata ID
Q5273898
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Southwark” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Southwark”
- Arabic: “ساوثوارك”
- Arabic: “ساوثوورك”
- Armenian: “Սաութարկ”
- Azerbaijani: “Sautuark”
- Balinese: “Southwark (borough London)”
- Balinese: “Southwark”
- Basque: “Southwark”
- Belarusian: “Саўтуарк”
- Belarusian: “Саўтўарк”
- Bengali: “সাউথওয়ার্ক”
- Bulgarian: “Съдък”
- Catalan: “Southwark”
- Chinese: “南华克”
- Chinese: “南華克”
- Chinese: “萨瑟克”
- Chinese: “薩瑟克”
- Czech: “Southwark”
- Dutch: “Southwark”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساذارك”
- Esperanto: “Southwark”
- Estonian: “Southwark”
- Finnish: “Southwark”
- French: “Southwark”
- Galician: “Southwark”
- Georgian: “საუთვარკი”
- Georgian: “საუთუარკი”
- German: “Southwark”
- Greek: “Σάουθουαρκ”
- Gujarati: “સાઉથવાર્ક”
- Hebrew: “לונדון/סאות’ווארק-לואישהאם”
- Hindi: “सदक”
- Hindi: “साउथवार्क”
- Indonesian: “Southwark”
- Irish: “Southwark”
- Italian: “Southwark”
- Japanese: “サザーク”
- Japanese: “サザック”
- Kannada: “ಸೌತ್ವಾರ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “서더크”
- Latin: “Opus Australe”
- Latin: “Southwark”
- Latin: “Sudoverca”
- Latin: “Sudwercha”
- Latin: “Suthweorca”
- Lithuanian: “Sadarkas”
- Lithuanian: “Soutvorkas”
- Luxembourgish: “Southwark”
- Macedonian: “Садарк”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Southwark”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Southwark”
- Norwegian: “Southwark”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Suðweorc”
- Persian: “ساتارک”
- Polish: “Southwark”
- Portuguese: “Southwark”
- Romanian: “Southwark”
- Russian: “Саутварк”
- Russian: “Саутуарк”
- Scots: “Southwark”
- Slovenian: “Southwark”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساتارک”
- Spanish: “Borough”
- Spanish: “distrito de Southwark”
- Spanish: “distrito Southwark”
- Spanish: “Southwark”
- Swedish: “Southwark”
- Tamil: “சௌதவார்க்”
- Telugu: “సౌత్ వార్క్”
- Turkish: “Southwark”
- Ukrainian: “Саутварк”
- Ukrainian: “Саутерк”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ ہوارک”
- Urdu: “سدرک”
- Welsh: “Southwark”
- “Southwark”
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