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Camberwell

American  
[kam-ber-wel, -wuhl] / ˈkæm bərˌwɛl, -wəl /

noun

  1. a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.


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Experts at Time Out ranked Canton third coolest in September behind Digbeth, Birmingham, and Camberwell, London, which took the top spot.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2025

Originally from Gosport in Hampshire and partly raised in Northern Ireland he moved to the diminutive city after finishing studying art at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal Academy in London.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2023

From his earliest childhood in Camberwell, a more exclusive suburb, he felt oppressed by the bourgeois conformism that enveloped his parents and their circle, and depressed by his mother’s cold suburban propriety.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 2023

Oludewa Okorosobo, 28, of Flaxman Road, Camberwell, south London, was found not guilty of both counts by the same jury at Chelmsford Crown Court.

From BBC Jan. 23, 2023

Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening’s tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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