There is also a Murdoch House in Rotherhithe, London.

Peckham Library, designed by Will Alsop won the Stirling Prize for modern architecture ; another architecturally innovative library is under construction at Canada Water in Rotherhithe.

The well in the centre of the shield is a ' canting ' reference to Camberwell and the cinquefoils represent the Dulwich area of Camberwell, while the ship on the top left refers to the maritime history of Bermondsey and was part of the Rotherhithe insignia.

It is on the northern bank of the River Thames opposite Rotherhithe and between Ratcliff to the west and Millwall to the east.

Rotherhithe () is a residential district in southeast London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

Following the arrival of the Jubilee line in 1999 ( giving quick connections to the West End and to Canary Wharf ) and the London Overground in 2010 ( providing a quick route to the City of London ), the rest of Rotherhithe is now a rapidly gentrifying residential and commuter area, with current regeneration progressing most quickly around Canada Water, where a new town centre with restaurant and retail units as well as new residential developments is emerging around the existing freshwater lake and transport hub.

Although the docks were closed and largely filled in during the 1980s, and have now been replaced by modern housing and commercial facilities, Rotherhithe is still given a large part of its character by its former maritime heritage.

The largest surviving dock on the south bank, Greenland Dock, is the focal point for the southern part of the district, while there are many preserved wharves along the riverside at the north end of Rotherhithe.

St. Mary's Church is at the centre of the old town of Rotherhithe village, which contains various historic buildings including the Brunel Engine House at the south end of the Thames Tunnel.

Rotherhithe is the traditional home of the football team, Fisher F. C., although the team currently ground-share with Dulwich Hamlet.

The most popular team in Rotherhithe is Millwall Football Club located nearby in the boundaries of the London Borough of Lewisham.

Originally established as seafarers ' missions, Rotherhithe is home to a Norwegian, a Finnish and a Swedish church.

The Finnish Church and the Norwegian Church are both located in Albion Street ; they were built in 1958 and 1927 respectively ( Rotherhithe Library is located between them ).

The Mayflower sailed from near a public house called the Shippe in Rotherhithe Street, which was substantially rebuilt in the 18th century and is now named the Mayflower.

Rotherhithe is joined to the north bank of the Thames by three tunnels.

Electorally, the western half is Rotherhithe ward and the eastern half Surrey Docks ward.

As much of Rotherhithe was covered by the now-defunct Surrey Commercial Docks, the district is sometimes referred to as Surrey Docks or ( since the late 1980s ) Surrey Quays, though the latter name tends to be used more for the southern half of the peninsula.

Nearby is the north end of the Rotherhithe Tunnel, and the western end of the Limehouse Link tunnel.

The Thames Tunnel is an underwater tunnel, built beneath the River Thames in London, United Kingdom, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping.

Nearby in Rotherhithe, the original Brunel Engine House is open to visitors as the Brunel Museum.

* The Brunel Museum – Based in Rotherhithe, London the museum is housed in the building that contained the pumps to keep the Thames Tunnel dry

The Rotherhithe Tunnel is a road tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in East London.

Pedestrian ( and cycle ) access is still permitted in the Rotherhithe bore, however, the distances involved for pedestrians increased significantly when the spiral staircases closed because rather than just crossing the river, a pedestrian has to follow the carriageway ramp all the way back to the surface.

Bermondsey had been host to London's first railway, from Spa Road, as part of the London Bridge to Greenwich line, and the junction of lines from Croydon and Kent at South Bermondsey, the Brunel's Rotherhithe foot-tunnel was converted into part of the East London Railway with original connections from Liverpool Street Station via Whitechapel to New Cross and New Cross Gate.

This name was never related to the idea of a " downtown " in the American sense, and indeed this part of Rotherhithe has since the 1980s been quiet and suburban in nature.

The remaining, eastern, part of Southwark ( the parishes of St John Horsleydown and St Olave & St Thomas ) was combined with Bermondsey and Rotherhithe.

It is situated in the eastern part of Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark, and so also serves the western part of Rotherhithe.

However, the name stuck, and the Surrey Docks part of Rotherhithe is now often referred to as Surrey Quays.

The Russells had been given a portion of land in lower Rotherhithe by a wealthy Streatham landowner, John Howland, as part of a wedding dowry for his daughter Elizabeth, granddaughter of Sir Josiah Child-the dictatorial chairman of the East India Company, who married Wrothesley Russell, the Marquis of Tavistock.

St Mary's Church, Rotherhithe is the local Church of England parish church in Rotherhithe, formerly in Surrey and now part of south east London.

At the time, the Great Dock at Rotherhithe was being constructed, on land leased from Elizabeth Howland, which formed part of the Howland Estate.

The constituency incorporates the areas of Camberwell, Peckham and Nunhead, in the London Borough of Southwark, together with parts of Walworth, East Dulwich, South Bermondsey and a small part of Rotherhithe.

Stave Hill is an artificial hill adjacent to the Stave Hill Ecological Park, it is part of Russia Dock Woodland, and is located in Rotherhithe, London.

Squeezed between the high walls of the docks and warehouses, the district became isolated from the rest of London, although some relief was provided by Brunel's Thames Tunnel to Rotherhithe.

It connects the Ratcliff district of Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets north of the river to Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark south of the river.

The Howland Great Dock in Rotherhithe ( built 1696 and later forming the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks ) was designed to address these problems, providing a large, secure and sheltered anchorage with room for 120 large vessels.

The East India Company erected a monument over his grave in St Mary's Churchyard, Rotherhithe.

Chandler's practice was in London's Rotherhithe amidst the squalor endured by the Dickensian poor.

Road tunnels were built in East London at the end of the 19th century, being the Blackwall Tunnel and the Rotherhithe Tunnel.

Caine was born in St Olave's Hospital, Rotherhithe, Southwark, the son of Ellen Frances Marie ( née Burchell ; 1900-1989 ), a cook and charwoman, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish market porter.

Taking up residence at Rotherhithe in London, Haakon was an important national symbol in the Norwegian resistance.

of Rotherhithe.

It connected Wapping on the north bank of the Thames with Rotherhithe on the south bank.

To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth and Peckham.

Turner executed his famous painting of The Fighting " Temeraire " Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up ( 1839 ), depicting the veteran warship being towed to Rotherhithe to be scrapped.

London's Norwegian Church and Finnish Church and the Swedish Seamen's Church are all in Rotherhithe.

The northern entrance of the Rotherhithe Tunnel emerges in Limehouse, to the west of the Basin and close to Limehouse railway station.

Rotherhithe has a long history as a port, with many shipyards from Elizabethan times until the early 20th Century and with working docks until the 1970s.

In the past Rotherhithe was also known as Redriff or Redriffe, however until the early 19th century, this name was applied to the whole river front from St Saviour's Dock to Bull Head Dock.