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
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The Borough the ancient borough of Southwark and the Liberty of the Clink
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Elephant and Castle properly Newington
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Newington properly Vestry and parish of St Mary, Newington
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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.

Metropolitan Borough of Southwark Town Hall, previously the Vestry Hall of St Mary, Newington
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 |
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| Population | 62,669 | 78,219 | 99,562 | 116,006 | 134,225 | 152,371 | 173,900 | 175,049 | 195,164 | 202,693 | 206,160 |
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References
1. Statistical Abstract for London, 1901 (Vol. IV); Census tables for Metropolitan Borough of Southwark