The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

* 1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.

* Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is set in a company of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.

Southwark ( pronounced ) is a district of Central London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

Southwark is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Sudweca.

The southern location is in reference to the City of London to the north, Southwark being at the southern end of London Bridge.

Southwark is on a previously marshy area south of the River Thames.

Two Roman roads, Stane Street and Watling Street, met at Southwark in what is now Borough High Street.

Much of Southwark was originally owned by the church — the greatest reminder of monastic London is Southwark Cathedral, originally the priory of St Mary Overy.

Southwark, since 1999, is also now serviced by Southwark, Bermondsey and London Bridge stations on the Jubilee Line.

They are part of the Bermondsey and Old Southwark Parliament constituency and the Member of Parliament is Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes.

It is within the Lambeth and Southwark London Assembly constituency and the London European Parliament constituency.

To the north is the River Thames, London Bridge station and Southwark Cathedral.

A new £ 25 million student residence is also expected to be built in Southwark by 2012.

It is located between Southwark Bridge ( downstream ) and Blackfriars Railway Bridge ( upstream ).

Bermondsey () is a district in south London, and a part of the London Borough of Southwark.

Camberwell is a district of south London, England, and forms part of the London Borough of Southwark.

The London Borough of Southwark is a London borough in south east London, England.

Southwark was also the location of several prisons, including those of the Crown or ' Prerogative Courts ', the Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons, that of the local manors courts e. g. Borough Compter, The Clink, and the Surrey county gaol originally housed at the ' White Lion Inn ' ( also called informally the ' Borough Gaol ') and eventually at Horsemonger Lane Gaol.

The old Southwark borough had been the location of many Courts and Prisons of Royal Prerogative, the Marshalsea and King ’ s Bench, as well as the manorial and borough courts the Surrey County magistrates had both sessions and a prison there.

While this location was more central and in a prestigious area for museums, the accommodation itself proved cramped and inadequate and in 1936 a new permanent location was found south of the River Thames in Southwark.

The location chosen was the Elephant and Castle, a prominent location near the River Thames in South London, partly because it was thought to be the site of the burning of the Southwark Martyrs.

London was established on a militarily-strategic and economically important location which is now the site of the City of London and North Southwark.

Nunhead is the location of several underground reservoirs, built by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company.

He seems to have been buried in what is now Southwark Cathedral, although the precise location is not known ; there is a reference by Aston Cockayne to a single grave for Fletcher and Massinger ( also buried in Southwark ).

In 1970, American actor and director Sam Wanamaker founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust and the International Shakespeare Globe Centre, with the objective of building a faithful recreation of Shakespeare's Globe close to its original location at Bankside, Southwark.

Because of its location on the southern Thames Path, its panoramic views over the City of London from the riverside, and the location between London City Hall and Southwark Cathedral the Galleria is public thoroughfare visited by many tourists and local workers. For twenty years it housed a year-round market The Hays Galleria Market which operated seven days a week.

The ancient borough of Southwark was also known simply as The Borough — or Borough — and this name, in distinction from ' The City ', has persisted as an alternative name for the area.

Southwark was also simultaneously referred to as the Ward of Bridge Without when administered by the City ( from 1550 to 1900 ) and as an Aldermanry until 1978.

Sometime about 886 AD, the ' burh ' of Southwark was created and the Roman City area reoccupied.

Southwark was outside of the control of the City of London and was a haven for criminals and free traders, who would sell goods and conduct trades outside the regulation of the City Livery Companies.

In 1327 the City obtained control from Edward III, of the manor next to the south-side of London Bridge ' the town of Southwark ' ( called latterly ' Guildable Manor ', i. e. the place of taxes and tolls ).

Southwark still has vestiges of this because of the connection with the City of London.

In 1327 the City acquired from Edward III the original ' vill of Southwark ' and this was also described as " the borough ".

After many decades of petitioning, in 1550 Southwark was incorporated into the City of London as ' The Ward of Bridge Without '.

Therefore, between 1750 and 1978 Southwark had two persons ( the Alderman and the Recorder ) who were members of the City's Court of Aldermen and Common Council who were elected neither by the City freemen or by the Southwark electorate but appointed by the Court of Aldermen.

View from Tower Bridge towards Southwark district: City Hall ( London ) | City Hall and the rest of More London development in the foreground, Shard London Bridge skyscraper ( under construction at time of photo ) in the background.

For this bridge that was avoided by the Port of London Authority granting a licence for the structure and the obtaining of planning permissions from the City of London and London Borough of Southwark.

Tower Bridge, the Millennium Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Southwark Bridge and London Bridge all connect across to the City of London are within the borough.

Southwark is the home to the Greater London Authority at City Hall.

* City of London Academy ( Southwark )

Kennington station was opened as " Kennington ( New Street )" in 1890 by the City of London and Southwark Subway.

London Bridge refers to several bridges that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London.

A skaldic tradition describes the bridge's destruction in 1014 by Æthelred's ally Olaf, to divide the Danish forces who held both the walled City of London and Southwark.

By 1722, congestion was becoming so serious that the Lord Mayor decreed that " all carts, coaches and other carriages coming out of Southwark into this City do keep all along the west side of the said bridge: and all carts and coaches going out of the City do keep along the east side of the said bridge.

The London postal district currently includes all of the City of London, Camden, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster.