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The Vestry thereupon appointed a Committee of 12 members, viz.: Messrs.
Bisley, Bulmer, Hayward, Foottit, Williams, Allen, Walker, Stevens, Wilson, Cox,
Canham, and Chafen to go into the matter and to report to the Vestry, and they
further ordered that Mr. E. Thomas, the Surveyor of Pavements, prepare a plan and
assist the Committee in obtaining the necessary data required by the Metropolitan
Board of Works for dividing this Parish into Wards.
On 3rd May, 1881, the said Committee brought up their Report which was
adopted, and it was
Resolved as follows:—
That the Parish of St. Mary, Rotherhithe, be divided into Three Wards, under
the provisions of the 41st section of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1862, viz.:
No. 1 Ward.
Commencing next the River on the west side of Surrey Commercial Dock entrance,
Rotherhithe-street, and continuing along the western boundary of the said
Docks to a point in the Deptford Lower-road, opposite Hawkstone-road, then crossing
the Deptford Lower-road to Southwark Park, and continuing along the southern and
a portion of the western boundary of the Park to the principal entrance in the Southwark
Park-road, and from thence along the parish boundary northward to the River at
West Lane.
Number of Rated Householders, Rateable Value,
2,429. £56,305.
No. 2 Ward;
Commencing next the River on the east side of the Surrey Commercial Dock entrance,
Rotherhithe-street, along the River-side to Freeman's Wharf, along the parish
boundary westward to Plough Bridge, then turning northward along the Surrev Canal
to Brown's Lock, and thence northward along the embankment of Canada Dock to
Deptford Lower-road, and returning northward along the boundary of the Surrey Commercial
Dock premises to the River on the east side of the Dock entrance, Rotherhithe
street aforesaid.
Number of Rated Householders, Rateable Value.
750. £82,808.
No. 3 Ward.
Commencing at the boundary of this parish on the Surrey Canal south of Plough
Bridge, and continuing along the southern boundary of this parish westward as far as
the junctions of St. Mary, Rotherhithe, St. Giles, Camberwell and St. Mary Magdalene,
Bermondsey, at Rotherhithe New-road, thence along the boundary between this
parish and Bermondsey in Rotherhithe New-road, Galleywall-road and Southwark