Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Travel writing

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

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
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