Borough Road is a road in Southwark, London that runs east-west between St. George's Circus and Borough High Street. The route was created as part of the planning and road improvements associated with the completion of Westminster Bridge in 1750, providing access to Southwark from the north-west West End without having to travel through the City of London. Southwark Bridge Road crosses Borough Road north-south about halfway along, while the railway to Blackfriars station passes overhead at the junction where there had been Borough Road Station. Borough Road has been a site of educational activity for over two centuries; the Quaker Joseph Lancaster established a universal free school (the future British School) in 1798, an dBorough Road also became home to the London Scohol of Musical Theatre and London South Bank University.