is a place in the
Borough Of Southwark ,
London ,
England .
The name means "new farmstead". Newington gained in important around 1200 with the establishment
Lambeth Palace nearby, which increased the local traffic. The area remained as a farming village with a low level of population until the second half of the
18th Century . There was a little industry, for example, the manufacture of
Clay Pipe s for
Tobacco smoking. In
William Shakespeare 's time, there was a theatre called
Newington Butts and later there were further theatres.
New roads brought development opportunities. The local landowner and
MP for
Winchester ,
Henry Penton , started to sell some of his farmland. The
19th Century brought more dense speculative housebuilding, and some philanthropic provision too. The Trinity House Estate, laid out around a
1820s classical church by
Francis Bedford , is still largely in existence.
The name has now fallen out of common usage because of London's urban sprawl and most residents would refer to the area as either
Borough or
Elephant And Castle . The name lives on in the streets called
Newington Causeway and
Newington Butts and in the open space
Newington Gardens , formerly the location of Horsemonger Lane Gaol from 1791.
Stoke Newington is a quite separate place in north London.
The scientist
Michael Faraday was born here, in Newington Butts, in
1791 . The visionary English artist
Samuel Palmer was born in Newington in
1805 .
