Metropolitan Borough of Southwark
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| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Admin. HQ: | Walworth Road |
| Area: | 1,131 acres |
| Created: | 1900 |
| Abolished: | 1965 |
| Image:Southwark arms.png | |
| Successor: | London Borough of Southwark |
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The Metropolitan Borough of Southwark was a metropolitan borough in the County of London, created in 1900, as a merger of the parish Vestry Boards of St Saviour, St Mary Newington, St George the Martyr and Christ Church. It included the areas now known as
- The Boroughthe ancient borough of Southwark and the Liberty of the Clink
- Elephant and Castle properly Newington
- Newington properly Vestry and parish of St Mary, Newington
- Walworth the manor coincident with St Mary, Newington
After the creation of the Greater London Council, from 1965 it was amalgamated into the London Borough of Southwark with the Metropolitan boroughs of Camberwell and Bermondsey.
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