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Camden Town

Camden Town tube station is a major junction on the Northern Line and one of the busiest stations on the London Underground network. It is particularly busy at weekends with tourists visiting Camden Market and Camden High Street.

Camden is well-known for Camden Market which is a major tourist attraction, particularly busy at weekends, selling variety of fashion, antiques, lifestyle and bizarre goods; they (and the surrounding shops) are popular with young people, in particular those searching for alternative clothing.

It is an area popular with overseas students who come to Camden to learn English and find a job in one of the local bars or restaurants. The oldest established language school is Camden College of English, which is located at the Chalk Farm side of the market.

The Regent's Canal runs through the north end of Camden Town and is a popular walk in summer.

Camdem Town tube station began life as part of the original route of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) (now part of the Northern Line). As the line here branched into two routes, to Hampstead and to Highgate, the design of the station was rather unusual, shaped like a V. The line to Hampstead (now the Edgware Branch) is under Chalk Farm Road; the line to Highgate (now the High Barnet branch) is under Kentish Town Road. With the narrowness of the roads above, and the necessity to keep directly beneath them to avoid having to pay compensation to landowners during construction, on both lines the northbound platform is directly above the southbound one.

At the apex of the V is a junction allowing northbound trains to take either of the branches north, and likewise allow the trains south from the branches to join the single southbound track. This resulted in four connecting tunnels. When the CCE&HR and City & South London Railway lines were joined together after the City & South London Line became part of London Underground, a short extension from the Euston terminus of the City & South London was built to connect with each of the two northerly branches. This added another four tunnels to the junction, making it the most complex junction on the network.

LOCATIONS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

Camden Road:   Camden Road is one of the few railway stations in England in which there is a police station.
Camden Town:   Camden Town tube station is a major junction on the Northern Line and one of the busiest stations on the London Underground network. It is particularly busy at weekends with tourists visiting Camden Market and Camden High Street.
London Greek Orthodox Cathedral - All Saints:   All Saints, Camden Town is a Greek Orthodox church known as the Greek Orthodox Church of All Saints.
Mother Red Caps:   At the main junction of Camden Town is a long-established business, once known as Mother Red Caps or Mother Damnable's, more recently the World's End.

PHOTOS OF THE AREA

Camden Town (1920):   Camden Town was named after Charles Pratt, the first Earl Camden, who started its development in 1791. It began life as little more than a handful of buildings beside a main road. Camden Town’s expansion as a major centre came with the opening of the Regent’s Canal to traffic in 1820

NEARBY STREETS AND BUILDINGS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

Agar Grove, NW1 · Agar Place, NW1 · Albert Street, NW1 · Alma Street, NW5 · Anglers Lane, NW5 · Arlington Road, NW1 · Barker Drive, NW1 · Bartholomew Road, NW5 · Bartholomew Villas, NW5 · Bartholomew, NW5 · Bayham Place, NW1 · Bayham Street, NW1 · Baynes Street, NW1 · Bonny Street, NW1 · Broadfield Lane, NW1 · Bruges Place, NW1 · Buck Street, NW1 · Camden High Street, NW1 · Camden Mews, NW1 · Camden Park Road, NW1 · Camden Road, NW1 · Camden Square, NW1 · Camden Street, NW1 · Camley Street, NW1 · Cantelowes Road, NW1 · Carol Street, NW1 · Castle Road, NW1 · Caversham Road, NW5 · Cedar Way, NW1 · Cliff Road Studios, NW1 · Cliff Road, NW1 · Cobham Mews, NW1 · College Place, NW1 · Court, NW1 · Crowndale Road, NW1 · Delancey Passage, NW1 · Delancey Street, NW1 · Elm Friars Walk, NW1 · Gaisford Street, NW5 · Georgiana Street, NW1 · Gloucester Crescent, NW1 · Gloucester Cresent, NW1 · Godwin Court, NW1 · Greenland Place, NW1 · Greenland Road, NW1 · Greenland Street, NW1 · Hawley Crescent, NW1 · Hawley Cresent, NW1 · Hawley Road, NW1 · Inverness Street, NW1 · Ivor Street, NW1 · Jamestown Road, NW1 · Jeffreys Place, NW1 · Kelly Street, NW1 · Kentish Town Road, NW1 · Kentish Town Road, NW5 · Kings Terrace, NW1 · Lawford Road, NW5 · Lawfords Wharf, NW1 · Leybourne Road, NW1 · Lyme Street, NW1 · Mandela Street, NW1 · Mary Terrace, NW1 · Miller Street, NW1 · Mornington Street, NW1 · Mornington Terrace, NW1 · Murray Mews, NW1 · Murray Street, NW1 · North Villas, NW1 · Oval Road, NW1 · Park Village East, NW1 · Parkway, NW1 · Patshull Road, NW5 · Plender Street, NW1 · Pratt Mews, NW1 · Pratt Street, NW1 · Prowse Place, NW1 · Raglan Street, NW5 · Randolph Street, NW1 · Reapers Close, NW1 · Regal Lane, NW1 · Regents Park, NW1 · Rochester Place, NW1 · Rochester Road, NW1 · Rochester Square, NW1 · Rossendale Way, NW1 · Rousden Street, NW1 · Royal College Street, NW1 · Sandall Road, NW5 · South Villas, NW1 · St Marks Square, NW1 · St Martins Almshouses, NW1 · St Martins Close, NW1 · St Pancras Way, NW1 · St Pauls Cresent, NW1 · St Pauls Mews, NW1 · Stratford Villas, NW1 · Stucley Place, NW1 · The Marr, NW1 · Torbay Street, NW1 · Underhill Street, NW1 · Water Lane, NW1 · Wilmot Place, NW1 · Wrotham Road, NW1 ·

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