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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.
- Newington, London
In 1313 it is mentioned again in the Archbishop of...
- Newington Butts Theatre
Newington Butts Theatre. Coordinates: -0°6′2.862″W. The...
- Newington, London
Newington Butts is a former village, now an area of south London. It is most famous as the location of the Newington Butts Theatre in the late 1500s. Some of the first performances of plays such as Hamlet , Titus Andronicus and The Taming of a Shrew happened here.
Newington Butts. Very little is known about this theatre, which was in use on occasion from approximately 1580. It was, unfortunately, situated over a mile from the Thames, in Surrey, near an archery training field, and the Privy Council complained of "the tediousness of the way." It appears to be the first theatre in what would later become ...
In or around 1576 James Savage opened a playhouse at Newington Butts about a mile south of the river, near what is now the Elephant and Castle district. Plays were performed there until 1595, and our records tell us that Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus were performed at this mysterious venue.
Newington Butts lies in the eastern division of Brixton hundred, at the distance of about a mile from London Bridge. It is bounded by the parish of Lambeth on the west; by that of St. George, Southwark, on the east and north; and by Camberwell on the south. The parish is of very small extent.
