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South LondonSouth London is the area of Greater London south of the River Thames. It has considerably fewer historic sites and important government and business sites than North London, because London grew out of the cities of Westminster and London, both north of the river. There are many notable places in South London. The south side of the Thames has the London Eye, Lambeth Palace, the Tate Modern gallery, and the South Bank complex, heart of the city's arts scene. Further afield are: Some South Londoners complain that people from North London look down on and ignore them and their region. Peter Sellers famously joked about South London in his sketch Bal-ham: The Gateway To The South. The London Underground network is largely concentrated in North London - there are only 30 stations south of the river compared to many times that north of it, despite roughly equal populations. Historically this was due to the early development of an effective electrically powered surface railway system in South London. It meant that for decades there was a separation of public rail transport networks on either side of the Thames. With the Jubilee Line extension in the late 1990s and the proposed East London Line Extension the integration of transport systems across the Thames is starting to be rectified. South London consists of the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Southwark, Sutton, and Wandsworth. The London Borough of Richmond straddles the river. See also
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