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Camden Town

Camden Town (/ˈkæmdən/ ⓘ), often shortened to Camden, is an area in the London Borough of Camden, around 2.5 miles (4.1 km) north-northwest of Charing Cross.[2] Historically in Middlesex, it is identified in the London Plan as one of 34 major centres in Greater London.

For the tube station, see Camden Town tube station. For the electoral district, see Camden Town (ward). For the song by Suggs, see The Lone Ranger (album).

Camden Town

24,538 (Camden Town with Primrose Hill and Cantelowes wards, 2011)[1]

TQ295845

2.5[2] mi (4.0 km) SSE

Greater London

England

United Kingdom

LONDON

NW1, NW5

020 (London)

Metropolitan

London

London

Laid out as a residential district from 1791 and originally part of the manor of Kentish Town and the parish of St Pancras, Camden Town became an important location during the early development of the railways, which reinforced its position on the London canal network. The area's industrial economic base has been replaced by service industries such as retail, tourism and entertainment. The area now hosts street markets and music venues associated with alternative culture.[3]

Camden London Borough Council

Camden Town ward

: Holborn and St Pancras. Keir Starmer, Labour Party

UK Parliament

: Barnet and Camden. Anne Clarke, Labour Party

London Assembly

is a former locomotive roundhouse constructed in 1847 for the London and North Western Railway. It later had various uses, including a corn and potato store, Gilbey's gin warehouse, and eventually became derelict[32] until it was converted to a theatre, arts centre and music venue in 1966,[33] later closed, and reopened in 2006 as a theatre and music venue.[34]

The Roundhouse

(see also Catacombs of London), not true catacombs but an underground area largely underneath the Camden markets, originally used as stables for horses and pit ponies used to shunt railway wagons.[35][36] Not open to visitors due to danger of flooding.

Camden Catacombs

St Pancras Old Church

Catholic church for the area

Our Lady of Hal

The Camden Eye at 2 Kentish Town Road, was formerly known and as the Old Mother Red Cap, the Red Cap and Halfway House. It was also used as a prison.

St Michael's Church, Camden Town

Greater London House, formerly the and now offices housing several companies, a striking Art Deco Egyptian Revival building dating from 1926 to 1928, stands at Mornington Crescent and is distinguished by a pair of 8.5-foot (2.6 m)-high bronze statues of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet.

Carreras Cigarette Factory

The , until closed in 2023.

Jewish Museum London

The on Royal College Street. Founded in 1791, the oldest and largest veterinary school in the UK.

Royal Veterinary College

originally one of the Rowton Houses providing low-cost overnight accommodation, now housing a conference centre but still providing low-cost rooms and flats.[37]

Arlington House

The unusual supermarket and flats on Camden Road were designed in a high-tech style by Nicholas Grimshaw and built on the site of the former large ABC Bakery.[38]

Sainsbury's

The is a pub and music venue which became well known in the 90s as a hub for the indie and alternative music scene in London.[3] It was Amy Winehouse's favourite pub, and she was rumoured to get behind the bar to pull pints and serve drinks.[39]

Hawley Arms

(social reformer, jurist and LSE graduate) lived at 10, King Henry Road, Camden Town, now known as Ambedkar House, in 1921 and 1922.

B. R. Ambedkar

lived in Albert Street from the 1960s until her death in 2010.[42]

Beryl Bainbridge

Playwright lived in Gloucester Crescent for many years. Margaret Fairchild (aka Miss Shepherd) lived in a van on his driveway.[43]

Alan Bennett

's second London home was in Bayham Street in 1822. He later moved to 112 Little College Street (now College Place),[44] where he boarded with Elizabeth Roylance, a family friend, whom Dickens later immortalised as "Mrs. Pipchin" in Dombey and Son.

Charles Dickens

Actor and singer was born in Camden Town.

Anthony Head

Physicist, mathematician, and engineer was born in Camden Town.[45]

Oliver Heaviside

Author and journalist grew up in Camden Town's Plender Street.[46]

Bernard Levin

lived in Camden Town from 1819 until his death in 1849.

Richard Ryan

Boxer lived in Camden, and died at No. 257 Camden High Street in 1865. The house now has a plaque.[47]

Tom Sayers

Bandleader lived at Rochester Terrace in the 1930s.[48]

Pasquale Troise

Painter lived and worked as part of the Camden Town Group in Mornington Crescent.[49] In 1908 he painted a group of four paintings collectively titled The Camden Town Murder, in reference to the notorious Camden Town Murder case of 1907.

Walter Sickert

Poet owned a house at 54 Delancey Street from 1951 until his death in 1953.[50] There is a plaque on the house today.

Dylan Thomas

Singer lived in Camden Town for many years. First buying a flat at 2 Jeffrey's Place in 2003 and then at 25 Prowse Place in 2008.[51] In 2010, she moved to 30 Camden Square where she was found dead in July 2011.[52] Winehouse was strongly associated with Camden Town.[3] Since her death she has been entitled as "The Queen of Camden" and a bronze statue of her was placed in Stables Market on what would have been her 31st birthday, 14 September 2014.

Amy Winehouse

Hip-hop trio are from and grew up in the area.

N-Dubz

Music Band are from and grew up in Camden Town and surrounding areas.

Madness

Actor was raised on a council estate in Camden Town.

Daniel Kaluuya

Singer grew up in the area.

Eliza Doolittle

Jazz Musician was born and grew up Camden Town.

Nubya Garcia

Actor was born in Camden Town in 1992.

Freddie Highmore

Dancer and actress teaches at her studio in Camden Town.

Donna King

Actress and dancer was born & raised in Camden Town.

Louisa Lytton

Journalist and novelist lives in Camden.[53]

Sean Thomas

Songwriter and singer grew up in Camden, until she moved to Kosovo.

Dua Lipa

former professional footballer for Torquay United F.C., was born in Camden in 1981.

Ashley Keane

Drag queen was born in Camden before moving to California in 2020.

Lady Camden

Love Island Series 10 Runner up and business owner, was born and raised in Camden Town.

Whitney Adebayo

Comedian was born and grew up in a Camden council house.[54]

Roisin Conaty

Author , a onetime resident of Camden Town,[57] placed various characters and places in his stories there as well: Bob Cratchit's family in A Christmas Carol (1843); the Micawbers in David Copperfield (1850); and in Dombey and Son (1846–1848), a description of the building of the London and Birmingham Railway, includes a trip through Camden Town.[58]

Charles Dickens

's 1904 children's novel The Phoenix and the Carpet is set at 18 Camden Terrace, Camden Town.[59]

E. Nesbit

's poem "Business Girls" is set in Camden Town.[60]

John Betjeman

The climax of 's 1974 spy novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy occurs in a safe house at 5 Lock Gardens in Camden Town, a fictitious address modelled after real-life St. Mark's Crescent.[61]

John le Carré

– News about the Camden Markets and Camden Town

Camden Town London website

– The original Camden Town website, est. 1996

Camden Town Online