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Originally Orange Street. It is named after the eponymous hero of Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield whose ever hopeful landlord Wilkins Micawber is incarcerated in the King’s Bench debtors’ prison, which stood on the junction of Newington Causeway and Borough Road, after failing to meet his creditors’ demands. The author is also remembered elsewhere in the area on account of his own brief but hugely important residence at the time of his father’s three month imprisonment at Marshalsea debtors’ prison, which was nearby.
