Some
interesting info about Lambeth.
Lambeth is a long, thin borough
(approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and 7 miles (11 km) long).
Brixton is the civic centre of the borough and there are other town
centres. The largest shopping areas are (in order of size)
Streatham, Brixton, Vauxhall, Clapham and West Norwood.
According to the 2001 census, Lambeth has a population of 266,169.
62% of the borough is White, 12% Black Caribbean and 12% Black
African. 37% of householders are owner–occupiers. Lambeth has the
highest population density of the Inner London boroughs. It also has
a high unemployment rate and crime levels are also high. It has the
highest number of homicides in any of the London boroughs.
In the northern end of the borough are the Central London districts
of the South Bank and Lambeth which have a developing tourist
economy while at the very south of the borough are the leafy suburbs
of Gipsy Hill, Tulse Hill, West Dulwich and West Norwood. In between
the two are built-up and inner-city districts of Brixton, Brixton
Hill, Streatham Hill, Clapham, Clapham Park, Herne Hill, Stockwell
and Kennington which are each at different stages of gentrification
and have elements of suburban and urban settlement while Vauxhall
and South Lambeth are central districts being redeveloped with high
density business and residential properties. Streatham sits
somewhere between suburban London and inner-city Brixton with the
partly suburban and partly built-up areas of Streatham, Streatham
Hill and Streatham Vale.
Lambeth areas:- Brixton,
Clapham,
Crystal Palace,
Gipsy Hill,
Herne Hill,
Kennington,
Lambeth,
Loughborough Junction,
Oval and The Oval,
Stockwell,
Streatham,
Streatham Hill,
Eastfields,
Tulse Hill,
Vauxhall,
Waterloo,
West Dulwich and
West Norwood,
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