Place Name
An access road to the railway arches, so named in reference to Newington Causeway. Newington is the almost obsolete name for the Elephant and Castle area, it comes from the Old English words nīwe and tūn which means new village or farmstead and dates from the early Middle Ages. It was first recorded as Neuton sometime around the turn of the 12thCentury, a 100 years later it was referred to as Niwentone, and Neuwyngton juxta Southwark in 1325.
