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Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (283 words) |
 | The Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell was a metropolitan borough in the County of London. |
| In 1965 it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey to form the London Borough of Southwark. |
| The area of the borough was 4,480 statute acres (18.13 square kilometres). |
| Camberwell - LoveToKnow 1911 (241 words) |
| CAMBERWELL, a southern metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded N. by Southwark and Bermondsey, E. by Deptford and Lewisham, W. by Lambeth, and extending S. to the boundary of the county of London. |
| Camberwell is mainly residential, and there are many good houses, pleasantly situated in Dulwich and southward towards the high ground of Sydenham. |
| The parliamentary borough of Camberwell has three divisions, North, Peckham and Dulwich, each returning one member; but is not wholly coincident with the municipal borough, the Dulwich division extending to include Penge, outside the county of London. |
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