Lower Marsh, South Banks Market, is a great place to shop, eat and drink. Lower Marsh has a technical definition in planning terms as a District Shopping Centre. This is identified in the current Unitary Development Plan of the London Borough of Lambeth as a series of shopping frontages spread over Lower Marsh itself, The Cut, Waterloo Road, Baylis Road, Westminster Bridge Road, and Kennington Road. The Lower Marsh Conservation Area lies to the South East of Waterloo Station, and includes the Lower Marsh market, shopping area, adjacent buildings, and shopping frontages on Westminster Bridge Road, Waterloo Road, other important buildings and spaces. Lower Marsh Street predates all the buildings now present. It is shown in the de la Feuille survey of 1690 as a lane lined with cottages and small holdings crossing Lambeth Marsh, on an almost identical alignment. It formed, with The Cut, a link between Westminster Bridge 1750 and Blackfriars Bridge 1769. The leisure activities like pleasure gardens, circuses, theatres etc. which characterised the south bank in the late 18th and early 19th centuries were present in and around Lower Marsh Old Vic 1816. The opening of Waterloo Bridge in 1817 brought cheap development land into easy reach of the expanding centre of London. The Marsh was drained, and soon covered with rows of small houses, wharves and workshops.

Address: 52 Knatchbull Road, London, SE5 9QY
Telephone: 020 7926 6076
Fax: 020 7926 6080
Website: http://www.lower-marsh.co.uk/