Dr Chris (@drchrisc.bsky.social)

Spotlight on London’s open spaces: St George’s Fields Swamps, huge and inundate St George’s Fields was a large open space lying between Southwark and Lambeth, lying between modern Newington Causeway/Borough High Street to the east, and Kennington Rod/Baylis Road to the west. Of old it stretched as far as the village of Newington in the south (around modern Elephant & Castle), and as late as the mid-18th century as far north as modern Marshalsea Road, though the Fields shrank over time as building encroached on its edges. Part of the land had once belonged to the wealthy and powerful Brandon family, the Dukes of Suffolk, who swapped it with king Henry VIII who at one point intended to create a new royal hunting park there. http://pasttense.co.uk/2025/11/10/spotlight-on-londons-open-spaces-st-georges-fields/