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The area was originally named "Beormund's Ey" (Beormund being a Saxon personal name, "ey" being an old word for "island"). At this time it would have been little more than a marshy riverside island. A community of Cluniac monks established Bermondsey Abbey on the site in 1082 and began the development of the area, cultivating the land and embanking the riverside. They turned an adjacent tidal inlet at the mouth of the River Neckinger into a dock, naming it St Saviour's Dock after their abbey's patron saint.
The Knights Templar also owned land here and gave their names to one of the most distinctive streets in London, Shad Thames (a corruption of "St John at Thames"). Other ecclesiastical properties stood nearby at Tooley Street, where wealthy citizens and clerics had their houses, including the Priors of Lewes, the Abbots of Battle and the Priors of St Augustine, Canterbury.
As it developed over the centuries, Bermondsey underwent some striking changes. After the Great Fire of London, it was settled by the well-to-do and took on the character of a garden suburb. A renowned pleasure garden was founded there in the 17th century, commemorated now by the name of the Cherry Garden Pier. Samuel Pepys, the diarist, visited it in 1664 and recorded that he had left it "singing finely". In the 18th century, the discovery of a spring in the area led to Bermondsey becoming a spa. It was from the Bermondsey riverside that the painter J.M.W. Turner executed his famous painting of The Fighting "Temeraire" Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up ( 1839Events January 9 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. January 19 British East India Company captures Aden January 20 In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance. February 24 William Ot), depicting the veteran warship being towed to RotherhitheRotherhithe is a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames in east London in the London Borough of Southwark, facing Wapping and the Isle of Dogs on the north bank. It has been a port since the 12th century or earlier, and a shipyard since Elizabethan tim to be scrapped.
By the mid- 19th centuryAlternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical ( 18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801- 1900. Events The Little Ice Age ended, however, parts of Bermondsey had become a notorious slum with the arrival of industrial plants, docks and immigrant housing. The area around St Saviour's Dock, known as Jacob's Island, was one of the worst slums in London. It was immortalised by Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens ( February 7, 1812 June 9, 1870), pen-name " Boz", was an English novelist of the Victorian era. The popularity of his books during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none of his novels has ever go's novel Oliver TwistOliver Twist is a novel by Charles Dickens, probably the best-known of all his works. It has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations, and the basis for a highly successful British musical, entitled simply Oliver . As with most of Dick, in which the principal villain Bill SikesBill Sikes is a fictional character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. He is a career criminal associated with Fagin. He owns a bull terrier. Sikes, Bill. meets a nasty end in the mud of Jacob's Island. Dickens provides a vivid description of what it was like:
The area was extensively redeveloped during the 19th centuryAlternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical ( 18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801- 1900. Events The Little Ice Age ended and early 20th century with the expansion of the river trade and the arrival of the railways. London's first passenger railway terminus was built by the London to Greenwich Railway in 1836 at London Bridge, connecting Bermondsey with Greenwich. The line ran for four miles on 878 brick arches, with the linked Croydon Railway opening in 1839. Bermondsey also gained the first underground tube railway, the Tower Subway of 1869- 1870. This was supplanted in 1894 by Tower Bridge, which links the westernmost edge of Bermondsey to the City of London.
Immediately to the east of Tower Bridge, Bermondsey's 3½ miles of riverside were lined with warehouses and wharves, of which the most famous are Butler's Wharf and Hay's Wharf, now Hay's Galleria . They suffered severe damage in World War II bombing and became redundant in the 1960s following the collapse of the river trade. After standing derelict for some years, many of the wharves were redeveloped under the aegis of the London Docklands Development Corporation during the 1980s. They have now been converted into a mixture of residential and commercial accommodations and have become some of the most upmarket and expensive properties in London. In 1997, US President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair visited the area to dine at the Pont de la Tour restaurant at Butler's Wharf.
Despite the presence of London Bridge station, Bermondsey's transport links with the rest of London have historically been remarkably poor. This was remedied in 1999 with the opening of Bermondsey tube station on the London Underground's Jubilee Line.
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