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Camden Town

Camden Town, Camden A swarming ‘market town’ located a mile north of Euston Camden takes its name from Charles Pratt, 1st Baron Camden from 1765…

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Chislehurst

…Imperial memorial First recorded in 974 as a patch of stony woodland, a settle­ment had developed around the Scadbury estate by the mid-13th century. Camden

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Agar Town

Agar Town, Camden The former name for the canalside locality situated east of Camden Town, remem­bered now only in Agar Grove From 1789 this area was…

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Mornington Crescent

Morn­ington Crescent, Camden A street and tube station located at the junction of Hampstead Road and Camden High Street The crescent was created in the…

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Highgate

Highgate, Camden/Haringey A much-extended village standing on high ground north-east of Hampstead Heath Highgate took root around a village green peppered with ponds and elm trees,…

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Haverstock Hill

Haver­stock Hill, Camden A former artists’ retreat and ‘metro­pol­itan suburb’, now a section of the A502 linking Chalk Farm with Belsize Park The road called…

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Dartmouth Park

Dartmouth Park, Camden/Islington A group of well-built Victorian estates in south Highgate Dartmouth Park Hill was orig­i­nally part of the oldest road in Highgate, a…

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Maitland Park

Maitland Park, Camden A collec­tion of Victorian and post-war estates located on the western side of Kentish Town Maitland Park is named after Ebenezer Maitland,…

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West Euston

West Euston, Camden A ‘renewal priority area’ extending westward from Euston station to Albany Street This has been a densely built-up neigh­bour­hood for nearly two…

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The Brunswick

The Brunswick, Camden A concrete megas­truc­ture built in the late 1960s north-east of Russell Square in Blooms­bury This was the site of a series of…

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