Camberwell

Camberwell was a settlement with a parish church when mentioned in the Domesday Book. It was held by Haimo the Sheriff (of Kent). Its Domesday assets were: six hides and one virgate. Up to the mid-19th century, Camberwell was visited by Londoners for its rural tranquillity and the reputed healing properties of its mineral springs. Camberwell was changed by the arrival of the railways in the 1860s. Camberwell Green is now a small area of common land but was once a traditional village green on which was held an annual fair. There is evidence of a black community residing in Camberwell, made up mostly of African and North American slaves, during the 18th and 19th centuries. at Gipsy Hill. This…

Camberwell St Giles is the name given to an ancient, and later civil, parish in the Brixton hundred of Surrey. The parish covered 4570 acre in 1831 and was divided into the liberty of Peckham to the east and the hamlet of Dulwich to the southwest, as well as Camberwell proper. The parish tapered in the south to form a point in what is now known as the Crystal Palace area. In 1829, it was included in the Metropolitan Police District and in 1855 it was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works, with Camberwell Vestry nominating one member to the board. In 1889 the board was replaced by the London County Council and Camberwell was removed administratively from…