London Borough of Camden
The London Borough of Camden [ kæmdən ] is a city district of London. It lies immediately north of the city center and extends to Hampstead Heath. With the establishment of the administrative region of Greater London in 1965, he emerged from the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead, the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn and the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras in the former County of London.
The population continued in 2008 from 71.0 % White, 6.9% Black, 11.9 % Asian and 2.9 % Chinese together.
Districts
- Belsize Park
- Bloomsbury
- Brondesbury
- Camden Town *
- Chalk Farm
- Cricklewood *
- Dartmouth Park
- Fitzrovia
- Fortune Green
- Frognal
- Gospel Oak *
- Hampstead *
- Haverstock
- Highgate
- Holborn
- Kentish Town *
- Kilburn
- King's Cross
- Primrose Hill
- Somers Town *
- South Hampstead
- St Giles
- St Pancras
- Swiss Cottage *
- Tufnell Park *
- West Hampstead *
* - There are no separate article, only redirects here For the corresponding parts of the city.
Tourism
The cultural life of Camden is an attraction for tourists. Attractions:
- British Library
- British Museum
- BT Tower
- Camden Market
- Charles Dickens Museum
- Drama Centre London
- Freud Museum
- Gray 's Inn
- Hampstead Heath
- Highgate Cemetery
- Keats House
- Kenwood House
- Lincoln 's Inn
- London Zoo
- Regent 's Park ( eastern part)
- The Roundhouse
- Russell Square
- Sir John Soane 's Museum
- The stations King's Cross, St Pancras and Euston
Personalities
- Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress
- Dirk Bogarde, actor and writer
- Christian John Storey Bonington, mountaineer
- Charles Dickens, writer
- Thomas Dunhill, composer
- Stephen Fry, actor
- Johnny Haynes, Football Player
- Graham Hill, racing driver
- Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
- Frank Holl, painter
- Saul Hudson ( Slash), guitarist
- Andrew Fielding Huxley, physiologist and biophysicist
- Martin Handford, children's book author and illustrator ( Where's Waldo? )
- Thomas Lance, racing cyclist and Olympic champion
- Eric Marshall, polar explorer
- Max Minghella, actor
- Edward Lear, artist, illustrator, writer
- Jim Redman, motorcycle racer
- Jerry Springer, politicians and Moderator
- Dusty Springfield, singer
- Rod Stewart, a pop singer
- Elizabeth Taylor, film actress
- Peter Ustinov, writer, actor, director
- Alan Ayckbourn, playwright and dramatist
- Alain Whyte, guitarist
- Amy Winehouse, soul singer
- Kate Winslet, actress
- Lawson Wood, painter, illustrator and cartoonist
- Harry Styles, singer
- Jonny Depp, actor