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.Photo: Cuban8, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Surrey Quays railway station and The Den.
Surrey Quays railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Surrey Quays is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located in Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark. Situated in London fare zone 2, the next station to the north is Canada Water; to the south, the line splits into branches to Clapham Junction, Crystal Palace, New Cross and West Croydon. Surrey Quays railway station is situated 1,500 feet southeast of Southwark Park.
The Den
Stadium
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
Photo: Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
Photo: Secretlondon, Public domain.
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
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″ northLongitude
-0.05391° or 0° 3′ 14″ westOpen location code
9C3XFWWW+3COpenStreetMap ID
way 556485860OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata 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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