Dock Head
Names
- Dock Head
- St. Saviour's Dock Head
- the Head of St. Saviour's Dock
- Savorys Dock Head
Street/Area/District
- Dock Head
Maps & Views
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Dock Head
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Dock Head
- 1799 London (Horwood): Dock Head
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Savorys dock head, on the E. side, and near the S. end of Shad thames, Southwark, betn Mell str. Ely and Fivefoot lane Wly.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Head of St. Saviour's Dock.] from about the middle of Barnaby street is Crucifix Lane, extending Eastwards unto Roper Lane, which runs Southerly unto Five Foot Lane, and that leads to the Head of S. Saviours Dock.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Dock Head, St. Saviour’s Dock.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Dock-Head, Horselydown,—extends from the E. end of New-st. and Russell-st. Bermondsey, to Mill-st. and Hickman's Folly.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
DOCK-HEAD, Horselydown, is the head of St. Saviour's Dock, hence its name. It extends from the east end of New-street, Bermondsey, to Mill-street.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Dock Head, Bermondsey, a portion of the main street, parallel to the Thames, which connects Tooley Street and Bermondsey. It is so called from being at the head of what is now called St. Saviour's Dock, one of those natural creeks which were of so much importance before the making of artificial docks and the construction of railways. Between this and the river is Jacob Street, the "Jacob's Island" of Dickens's Oliver Twist.1
1 The place is mentioned in Grose's Olio, p. 135.