Bermondsey

Bermondsey, area in the London borough of Southwark. It is located east of Newington, southeast of London Bridge, and west of Rotherhithe. The name Bermondsey, probably meaning “dry ground in a marsh,” was first recorded (as Vermundesei) in the early 8th century ad, and it was written as Bermundesye in Domesday Book (1086). Bermondsey was a centre for leatherworking in the Middle Ages and was granted a virtual monopoly of the trade in 1703. A...