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Newington is a South London borough situated on the River Thames’ south side. The area is part of the district of Southwark and used to be an ancient community and location of Surrey county’s early administration. From 1917, Newington was also the site of the Sessions House of the County of London (the Inner London Crown Court currently occupies the building).
Places near Newington are Vauxhall, Kennington, Walworth, and Bermondsey. There are several tube stations near the area, namely London Bridge, Elephant & Castle, Borough, Kennington and Lambeth North, while railway stations that serve Nerington are Elephant & Castle, Waterloo, Blackfriars, and London Bridge.
Michael Faraday, a scientist, was born in 1791 in Newington Butts; the 19th-century author and missionary William Jowett was born in 1878 in Newington; and the developer of the original computing machine Charles Babbage was born in Walworth Road. Other popular people who were born in the area are national history artist and ornithologist William John Swainson (1789) and English artist Samuel Palmer (1805).