Long Lane is a major road in Southwark

Southwark

Southwark is a district of south London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Southwark. Situated east of Charing Cross, it forms one of the oldest parts of London and fronts the River Thames to the north...

, south London

London

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, England

England

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At the northwest end is a complicated junction with Borough High Street

Borough High Street

Borough High Street is a main street in Southwark, London running south-west from London Bridge, forming part of the A3 road, which runs from London to Portsmouth.- Overview :...

, Marshalsea Road

Marshalsea Road

Marshalsea Road is a major street in Southwark, south London, England. At the northwest end is the Southwark Bridge Road. At the southeast end is Borough tube station on Borough High Street. Continuing across the street are Long Lane and Great Dover Street...

, Tabard Street, and Great Dover Street

Great Dover Street

Great Dover Street is in Southwark, south London, England. At the northwest end it joins Marshalsea Road and Borough High Street and there is a junction with Long Lane; Borough tube station is at this location. At the southeast end is the Bricklayers' Arms roundabout and flyover...

. The historic St George the Martyr

St George the Martyr Southwark

St George the Martyr is a church in the historic Borough district of south London. It lies within the modern day London Borough of Southwark on Borough High Street at the junction with Long Lane, Marshalsea Road, and Tabard Street....

 church, with Dickensian

Charles Dickens

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 connections, is at this junction, now standing on an island surrounded by roads and cut off from its original churchyard

Churchyard

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. In this church the eponymous Dickens character Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period....

 was baptised and married. Charles Dickens himself lodged close by as a child in Lant Street

Lant Street

Lant Street is a street south of Marshalsea Road in Southwark, south London, England.-Overview:At the northwest end is the Southwark Bridge Road and at the southeast end is Borough High Street. Close by, just to the north in Borough High Street, is the historic St George the Martyr church, where...

 when his father was in the Marshalsea

Marshalsea

The Marshalsea was a prison on the south bank of the River Thames in Southwark, now part of London. From the 14th century until it closed in 1842, it housed men under court martial for crimes at sea, including those accused of "unnatural crimes", political figures and intellectuals accused of...

 debtor's prison during 1824. It was a traumatic period of his life. Also at this junction is the Borough tube station

Borough tube station

Borough tube station is a London Underground station in The Borough area of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern Line between Elephant & Castle and London Bridge stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 1....

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The road is designated the A2198. At the southeast end, there is a junction with Tower Bridge Road (the A100). Near this junction, it crosses Bermondsey Street (the A2205).

There have been a number of archaeological excavations on Long Lane.

History

Long Lane originally led from the High Street by St George's Church to the site of Bermondsey Abbey

Bermondsey Abbey

Bermondsey Abbey was an English Benedictine monastery. Most widely known as an 11th-century foundation, it had a precursor mentioned in the early 8th century, and was centred on what is now Bermondsey Square, the site of Bermondsey Market, Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark, southeast...

. The land to the north of Long Lane was called Snow Fields in the eighteenth century.

External links

• Long Lane, London SE1
• LondonTown.com information
• Long Lane, Southwark Shopping Guide
• Shops on Long Lane, SE1
• Long Lane, Southwark, London SE1 — house prices
• Bermondsey Square and Long Lane: London in the snow, photograph from Flickr
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