Southwark Central (UK Parliament constituency)

The creation of the constituency was recommended by the Boundary Commission in a report issued in 1917, and formally created by the Representation of the People Act 1918.

This formed an area in two main parts linked by a narrow strip of land around Elephant and Castle.

It stretched to Kennington Park and to Avenue Road, being the southern boundary of the borough.

Around the Elephant and Castle area the constituency included Newington Butts and the Metropolitan Tabernacle, but at its narrowest point it was only about 100 yards between the western boundary on Newington Causeway and the eastern boundary on the railway line through Elephant & Castle railway station.

[2] The constituency's last MP, future Chancellor Roy Jenkins, described it as "postage stamp-sized".