Bankside
Sign in to saveBankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock. It is part of a business improvement district known as 'Better Bankside'.
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- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- London
- UK place.official_name
- Bankside
- UK place.london_borough
- Southwark
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark
- UK place.post_town
- LONDON
- UK place.postcode_area
- SE
- UK place.postcode_district
- SE1
- UK place.dial_code
- 020
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ319805
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Paul's - Tate Modern.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Bankside, including the Tate Modern, viewed from opposite (north) side of the River Thames
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- Tate Modern Mobile-Phone-Pano - panoramio.jpg
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- postal code
- SE1
- OS grid reference
- TQ319805
- P8168
- Colombey-les-Belles
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- Bankside
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Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock. It is part of a business improvement district known as 'Better Bankside'.
==History== ===Toponymy=== The 'banke' was reclaimed by the Bishop of Winchester who owned the manor of the Clink of which this is part. There is a map plan in the Duchy of Lancaster archive showing 'the way to the banke'. The name is recorded in 1554 as the Banke syde and means 'street along the bank of the Thames'. In 1860 Southwark Street was created to connect the Blackfriars and London bridge crossings here and that can be regarded as the area's informal southern perimeter.
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