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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Southwark. You may be able to find further references to Southwark in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | CHRISTCHURCH-SOUTHWARK | a parish and a sub-district | Imperial | SOUTHWARK | a metropolitan borough, five parishes, and three districts | Imperial | St George the Martyr | parish | Bartholomew | St Olave Southwark | parish | Bartholomew | St Saviour | parish | Bartholomew |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Southwark within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs | 13 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 5 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City | 5 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster | 4 | William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 2 | William Camden | Middlesex and London | 2 | Celia Fiennes | London, part 1 | 2 | James Boswell | September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Preface to Third Volume | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle | 1 | George Head | Durham Coast | 1 | John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 1 | Karl Moritz | Chapter 2: Entering London | 1 | Karl Moritz | Chapter 7: St. Paul's Cathedral | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Borough | 0 | 2 |
Waterloo | 0 | 5 |
Newington | 9 | 2 |
Inner Temple | 0 | 1 |
Horsleydown | 0 | 2 |
Middle Temple | 0 | 2 |
Tower of London | 0 | 6 |
Walworth | 0 | 2 |
Bermondsey | 1 | 2 |
Duchy of Lancaster | 0 | 1 |
Lambeth | 9 | 2 |
Strand | 1 | 5 |
St Katherine | 0 | 2 |
Aldgate | 0 | 2 |
Westminster | 103 | 7 |
Covent Garden | 2 | 1 |
Kennington | 0 | 2 |
Lincolns Inn | 1 | 2 |
Glasshouse Yard | 0 | 2 |
Charter House | 0 | 1 |