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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

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

Back in the 1990s, she had moved from County Tyrone in Northern Ireland to study metalwork at Camberwell Art College.

From BBC Jan. 9, 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

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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