Newington Butts is a former village, now an area of the London Borough of Southwark, that gives its name to a segment of the A3 road running south-west from the Elephant and Castle junction. The road forks left into Kennington Park Road and right into Kennington Lane, leading to Kennington and Vauxhall Bridge respectively.
It is popularly believed to take its name from an archery butts, or practice field, but there is no evidence for such activity. The area gave its name to an Elizabethan theatre which saw the earliest recorded performances of some Shakespearean plays.
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