Southwark

Southwark, or the Borough, a division of London, on the Surrey side of the Thames, opposite the City, and annexed to it in 1827; it sends three members to Parliament, and among its principal buildings are St. Saviour's Church and Guys Hospital.

Population (circa 1900) given as 339,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)