Editing Rotherhithe (section)

===The ''Mayflower''===
In July 1620, the ''[[Mayflower]]'' sailed from Rotherhithe and picked up 65 passengers, probably from [[Blackwall, London|Blackwall]], then proceeded to [[Southampton]] on the south coast of England to begin loading food and supplies for the voyage to [[Americas|America]]. At that time, the [[Puritan|English Separatists]], who later became known as the "[[Pilgrim Fathers]]", were mostly still living in the city of [[Leiden]], in the [[Netherlands]]. There they hired a ship called the ''[[Speedwell (1577 ship)|Speedwell]]'' to take them from [[Delfshaven]] in the Netherlands to Southampton to join the ''Mayflower''.<ref>[http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/voyage3.php Archived copy] www.mayflower.com {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229100950/http://mayflowerhistory.com/History/voyage3.php |date=29 December 2010 }} Route and Maps of the Voyage</ref>

The ship's master, [[Christopher Jones (Mayflower captain)|Christopher Jones]], died shortly after his return in 1621 and is buried in an unmarked grave at St Mary's Church. No one can be sure where on the Rotherhithe peninsula the ''Mayflower'' was berthed, but the ''Mayflower'' pub near St Mary's Church claims the honour, and lists the names of the ''Mayflower'' passengers on their wall. The building itself, despite external and interior appearances, dates only from the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ufSsUlkWKaYC&q=Mayflower|title=London 2: South|last1=Cherry|first1=Bridget|last2=Pevsner|first2=Nikolaus|date=March 1983|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0300096518}}</ref> The extent to which the pub was damaged during the [[Second World War]], and was rebuilt or simply restored, is uncertain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hidden-london.com/nuggets/mayflower/|title=Mayflower - Hidden London|website=hidden-london.com}}</ref>