The Outlaw Borough

Local history is brought vividly to life by writer and performer John Constable, author of The Southwark Mysteries and Secret Bankside – Walks In The Outlaw Borough.

The medieval Liberty of the Clink, outside the law of the City, was a place of prisons, taverns, bear-pits and 'stews' – where the world's oldest profession was licensed by the church and Shakespearean theatre was born. This walk ends at Cross Bones Graveyard.