Southwark Park

Southwark Park is located in Rotherhithe, in central South East London, England, and is managed by the London Borough of Southwark. It first opened in 1869 by the Metropolitan Board of Works as one of its first parks.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Surrey Quays railway station and The Den.

Surrey Quays railway station

Railway station

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Surrey Quays is a railway station on the Windrush line of the London Overground network; it is located in Rotherhithe, in the London Borough of Southwark, England. Surrey Quays railway station is situated 1,500 feet southeast of Southwark Park.

The Den

Stadium

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The Den is a football stadium in New Cross Gate, south-east London, and the home of Millwall Football Club. The Den is adjacent to the South London railway originating at London Bridge, and a quarter-of-a-mile from the Old Den, which it replaced on September 30, 1993. The Den is situated 3,400 feet south of Southwark Park.

Tower Bridge

Bridge

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Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. Tower Bridge is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Southwark Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bermondsey and Surrey Quays.

Bermondsey

Suburb

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Bermondsey is a district in southeast London, part of the London Borough of Southwark, England, 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of Charing Cross. To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe and Deptford, to the south Walworth and Peckham, and to the north is Wapping across the River Thames.

Surrey Quays

Quarter

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Surrey Quays is a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east London, occupied until 1970 by the Surrey Commercial Docks. The precise boundaries of the area are somewhat amorphous, but it is generally considered to comprise the southern half of the Rotherhithe peninsula from Canada Water to South Dock; electorally, Surrey Docks is the eastern half of the peninsula.

Rotherhithe

Suburb

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Rotherhithe is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on the south bank of a bend in the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, with the Isle of Dogs to the east.

Southwark Park

Type: Park
Description: park in the London Borough of Southwark
Category: recreation area
Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.49522° or 51° 29′ 43″ north

Longitude

-0.05391° or 0° 3′ 14″ west

Open location code

9C3XFWWW+3C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 556485860

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

Wikidata ID

Q7571157

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In Other Languages

From Bosnian to Slovenian—“Southwark Park” goes by many names.

Bosnian: “Southwark Park”
Chinese: “南華克公園”
French: “Southwark Park”
Japanese: “サザーク・パーク”
Malay: “Taman Southwark”
Slovenian: “Southwark Park”

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