Editing London Borough of Southwark (section)

==Geography==
The borough borders the [[City of London]] and the [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]] to the north (the [[River Thames]] forming the boundary), the [[London Borough of Lambeth]] to the west and the [[London Borough of Lewisham]] to the east. To the south the borough tapers giving a brief border with the [[London Borough of Bromley]].

The northwest part of the borough is part of Central London and is densely developed. To the east, the Rotherhithe peninsula has lower-density modern housing and open space around the former [[Surrey Commercial Docks]]. The southern part of Southwark includes the Victorian suburbs of Camberwell, Peckham and Nunhead, and the prosperous "village" of Dulwich with some very large houses forms the far south of the borough.

===Landmarks===
[[Tower Bridge]], the [[Millennium Bridge (London)|Millennium Bridge]], [[Blackfriars Bridge]], [[Southwark Bridge]] and [[London Bridge]] all connect the [[City of London]] to the borough. The [[Tate Modern]] art gallery, [[Shakespeare's Globe Theatre]], the [[Imperial War Museum]] and [[Borough Market]] are also within the borough. At {{convert|1|mi|km|spell=in}} wide, [[Burgess Park]] is Southwark's largest green space.

===Hills and watercourses===
{{main|Norwood Ridge|Pool of London|Tideway|River Effra}}

The [[Norwood Ridge]], save for around its broad northern third, forms the borough's boundary. Along these crests, against the extreme of the borough's southern narrow taper, is the highest point of the borough, [[Sydenham Hill]]. This is [[List of highest places in Greater London|the fifteenth-highest peak in London]].

The main watercourse is the [[Thames]] bounding the north of the borough into which the area drains.

The southern {{frac|2|3}} of the borough is the valley catchment of a present sewerage and surface water [[drainage basin]], once a large stream with complex mouths across the north of the borough, the [[Effra]]. It is in very large part converted to a combined sewer under a [[Joseph Bazalgette]]-engineered reform to enable general urbanisation; all combined and public foul sewers drain far to the east – to the [[Crossness sewage works|Crossness works]].

Similarly reformed, into all three types of drainage (foul, combined, surface), are the [[Neckinger]] and [[River Peck|Peck]] catchments of the borough.