Newington Causeway
Street in the London Borough of Southwark
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Newington Causeway is a road in Southwark, London, between the Elephant and Castle and Borough High Street. Elephant & Castle Underground station is at the southern end. It follows the route of the old Roman road Stane Street.[1]
In 1912, an outpatients' department of the South London Hospital for Women and Children was opened in Newington Causeway, using money raised by Harriet Shaw Weaver, publisher of The Freewoman, and other feminists.[2]
Cecil Belfield Clarke, physician, originator of Clark's rule for the treatment of children, and a founder of the League of Coloured Peoples, lived and practised on Newington Causeway from the 1920's through the Second World War.[3][4][5]
Metro Central Heights (originally known as Alexander Fleming House) -- an early 1960s series of multi-storey blocks designed by Ernő Goldfinger as office buildings subsequently converted into flats—stands at the southern end of the road. The Ministry of Sound, a famous nightclub, is in Gaunt Street just off Newington Causeway. This is also where the Inner London Sessions House, a Crown Court, and the Newington Court Business Centre are located.
The Institute of Optometry, formerly the London Refraction Hospital, is at 56–62 Newington Causeway.[6] The Salvation Army UK and Republic of Ireland headquarters used to occupy a large building at 101 Newington Causeway.[7][8]
The road forms part of the A3.
Major adjoining roads and streets
- Borough High Street
- Borough Road
- Elephant and Castle roundabout
- Gaunt Street
- Harper Road
- Southwark Bridge Road
