Newington Butts

The north end of the "Newington Butts" section of the A3 terminates at a roundabout of the Elephant and Castle junction, where the Elizabethan theatre stood.

Newington Butts is a former hamlet, now an area of the London Borough of Southwark, London, England, that gives its name to a segment of the A3 road running south-west from the Elephant and Castle junction. The road continues as Kennington Park Road leading to Kennington; a fork right is Kennington Lane, leading to Vauxhall Bridge. Michael Faraday was born in Newington Butts in 1791.

It is believed to take its name from an archery butts, or practice field.[1][2] The area gave its name to an Elizabethan theatre which saw the earliest recorded performances of some Shakespearean plays.[2]

  1. ^ Lysons, Daniel (1792). "Newington Butts". The Environs of London: County of Surrey. Vol. 1. British History Online. pp. 389–398. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Newington Butts Playhouse". PastScape. UK: English Heritage. Retrieved 21 August 2013.