Camden Town, Middlesex

Historical Description

Camden Town, a district of London, in St Pancras parish, Middlesex. It adjoins the north-east side of Regent's Park, 3½ miles NW of St Paul's, and is intersected by the Regent's Canal and by the North London and London and North-Western and Midland railways. It was founded in 1791, and took its name from the first Marquis of Camden, the lessee of the manor. It contains good streets, crescents, and places. Acreage, 170; population, 17,416.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Camden Town from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Camden-Town)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.

Maps

Online maps of Camden Town are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)