The London Borough of Lambeth

Lambeth is a London borough in South London and forms part of Inner London.

Geography

Lambeth is a long, thin borough (approximately 3 miles wide and 7 miles long). It has no one single "town centre" as such. Great variety exists in the districts. 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, 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 is responsible for 64 parks and green spaces. Population: 268,100 Area: 26.82 km²

Major Towns,

Brixton,  Camberwell ,  Clapham,  Clapham Park,  Lambeth,  Oval,  Sreatham Hill,  Stockwell,  Streatham,  Streatham Common,  Tulse Hill,  Vauxhall,  Waterloo,  West Dulwich,  West Norwood

History

The London Borough of Lambeth was formed in 1965 from the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth and part of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth containing Streatham and Clapham