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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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She was wrongly accused of stealing £11,503 while working at Camberwell Green Post Office in London.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

The court heard that officers in an unmarked parked police vehicle spotted the Audi Q in Camberwell, south London, and began following it.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024

The "soon-to-be-former Labour MP for Camberwell and Peckham", as she labelled herself on BBC Radio London, was first elected in an October 1982 by-election.

From BBC ● May 28, 2024

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

We went towards Camberwell Green, and when we were thereabouts, Wemmick said suddenly,—

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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