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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 Borough the 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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Area and population

References

Area and population

The Borough had an area of 1,131 acres. The population from the Census was:
'Civil Parishes 1801-1899'

Year[1]	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901
Population	62,669	78,219	99,562	116,006	134,225	152,371	173,900	175,049	195,164	202,693	206,160

References

1. Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV); Census tables for Metropolitan Borough of Southwark