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Southwark

a metropolitan and parliamentary borough of central London (q. v.). Among its principal buildings are St. Saviour's Church, Guy's Hospital, Bethlehem Hospital for Lunatics, Leather and Borough markets, and the termini of the London, Brighton and South Coast railway and the Southeastern railway.

The Surrey Commercial Docks and many manufactories of various kinds are in the borough. Pop. about 300,000.

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