Editing Southwark (section)

====King Canute====
Cnut returned in 1016, but capturing the city was a great challenge. To cut London off from upstream riverborne supplies, Cnut dug a trench around Southwark, so that he could sail or drag his ships around Southwark and get upstream in a way that allowed his boats to avoid the heavily defended London Bridge.<ref name="Brayley1829">{{cite book|first=Edward Wedlake |last=Brayley|title=Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including Characteristic Sketches, Antiquarian, Topographical, Descriptive, and Literary|url=https://archive.org/details/londiniana02unkngoog|year=1829|publisher=Hurst, Chance, and Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/londiniana02unkngoog/page/n84 52]–54}}</ref> In so doing he hoped to cut London off from river borne resupply from upstream. The Dane's efforts to recapture London were in vain, until he defeated Ethelred at the [[Battle of Assandun]] in Essex later that year, and became King of England. It is thought that the section of the Kent Road, at Lock Bridge, was ''Canute's Trench''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Besant |first1=Walter |authorlink=Walter Besant |url=https://archive.org/details/londonsouthoftha00besa |title=London South Of The Thames |location=London |publisher=Adam & Charles Black |year=1912 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/londonsouthoftha00besa/page/67 67]-68 |access-date=2014-08-11 }}</ref> In May, 1016,<ref name="Dickens1861">{{cite book|first=Charles |last=Dickens|title=All the Year Round|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Am8HAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA470|year=1861|publisher=Charles Dickens|page=470}}</ref> In 1173, a channel following a similar course was used to drain the Thames to allowing building work on London Bridge.<ref name="Hughson1808">{{cite book|first=David |last=Hughson|title=London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation|url=https://archive.org/details/londonbeinganac02hughgoog|year=1808|publisher=W. Stratford|page=[https://archive.org/details/londonbeinganac02hughgoog/page/n60 60]}}</ref>

[[File:St Olave on the exterior of St Olaf's House.jpg|thumb| [[St Olaf House]], Southwark. [[Olaf II of Norway|Olaf, (or Olave)]], helped the English retake London Bridge, and with it London, from his fellow Norsemen.]]