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of poor persons within the area of the new Borough. The scheme was.
therefore, strenuously opposed by the St. George's, St. Saviour's, and
Christchurch parishes, and by the St. Saviour's Union. In the course
of the Inquiry, the Assistant-Commissioner intimated that he was
unable to recommend it to the Commissioners. Other schemes were
then proposed, but a very much smaller scheme of alteration has been
finally adopted.
boundaries of the borough of southwark.
The boundaries of the new Borough as settled by the Commissioners'
scheme are as follows: —
From a point in the centre of the river Thames, on the curbstone
of the eastern pavement of London Bridge, along that curbstone to a
point on the northerly side of Duke Street in the ancient boundary line
between the parish of St. Saviour's and St. Olave's, thence along that
boundary line to a point on the curbstone of the pavement on the
southerly side of the Railway Approach from London Bridge, thence
in a south-easterly direction along that curbstone to the point where it
joins the Railway Approach from Borough High Street, thence in a
south-westerly direction along the curbstone of the Railway Approach
last mentioned, across the end of Denman Street to a point opposite
the curbstone on the eastern side of Borough High Street, thence
southward along that curbstone to St. Thomas' Street, eastward along
the centre of St. Thomas' Street to the centre of Great Maze Pond,
along the centre of Great Maze Pond and Snow Fields to Crosby
Row, thence southward along the centre of Crosby Row, Long Lane
and Staple Street, thence along the ancient boundary between the
parishes of St. George the Martyr and Bermondsey to Weston Street,
southward along the centre of Weston Street, Rephidim Street and
Potier Place to Bermondsey New Road, along the centre of Aberdour
Street in a southerly and westerly direction to a point opposite the
continuation of Aberdour Street in Old Kent Road, thence along the Old
Kent Road in a southerly direction to a point opposite the boundary
between the South Eastern Railway property and Waleran Buildings,
thence along the boundary of the South Eastern Railway property t o a
point opposite the north-western boundary of theend house at the northeast
side of Marcia Road, thence along Marcia Road to a point in the