Southwark St Olave was an ancient civil and ecclesiastical parish on the south bank of the

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, covering the area around where

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now stands in the modern

London Borough of Southwark The London Borough of Southwark ( ) in South London forms part of Inner London and is connected by bridges across the River Thames to the City of London and London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was created in 1965 when three smaller council areas ...

. The boundaries varied over time but in general the parish stretched east from London Bridge past

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. Southwark St Olave and St Thomas replaced the civil parish in 1896. It was abolished in 1904 and absorbed by

Bermondsey Bermondsey () is a district in southeast London, part of the London Borough of Southwark, England, southeast of Charing Cross. To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe and Deptford, to the south Walworth and Peckham ...

parish.

Boundary changes

Southwark St Olave formed part of the ancient Borough of Southwark. Part of its area was split off around 1550 to create Southwark St Thomas, corresponding to the hospital of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1733, part of area was used to create

Southwark St John Horsleydown Southwark St John Horsleydown was a small parish on the south bank of the River Thames in London, opposite the Tower of London. The name Horsleydown, apparently derived from the "horse lie-down" next to the river, is no longer used. The pari ...

Administration

The parish became, with St John Horsleydown and St Thomas, part of the St Olave Poor Law Union and in 1855 it became part of the St Olave District of the Metropolis. It was absorbed by the

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in 1889. In 1896 St Olave was abolished as a civil parish and was combined again with Southwark St Thomas to form Southwark St Olave and St Thomas. In 1900 the combined parish became part of the

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and was abolished in 1904, with its former area absorbed into the Bermondsey civil parish, as was that of St John Horsleydown. The ecclesiastical parish of St Olave was abolished in 1947, and then formed part of Southwark St Olave and St John.

References

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Boundary changes

Administration

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