Editing London Borough of Southwark (section)

==Toponymy==
The name ''Suthriganaweorc''<ref name="Mills">{{cite book |last=Mills |first=D. |year=2000 |title=Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> or ''Suthringa geweorche''<ref name="Johnson">{{cite book |last=Johnson |first=David J. |title=Southwark and the City |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1969 |page=7 |isbn=978-0-19-711630-2}}</ref> is recorded for the place in the early 10th-century [[Anglo-Saxon]] document known as the ''[[Burghal Hidage]]''<ref name="Johnson"/> and means "[[Surrey]] folk's fort"<ref name="Mills"/> or "the [[burh|defensive work]] of the men of Surrey".<ref name="Johnson"/> Southwark is recorded in the 1086 [[Domesday Book]] as ''Sudweca''. The name means "southern defensive work" and is formed from the [[Old English]] ''sūþ'' (south) and ''weorc'' (work). In [[Old English]], [[Surrey]] means "southern district (or the men of the southern district)",<ref>Concise Oxford Dictionary of Place Names, Eilert Erkwall, 4th edition</ref> so the change from "southern district work" to the latter "southern work" may be an evolution based on the elision of the single syllable '''''ge''''' element, meaning district.

The strategic context of the defences would have been in relation to [[City of London|London]], its [[London Bridge|bridge]] and preventing waterborne attackers from travelling further up the [[Thames]].