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Camden-Town in Middlesex County England History and GeographyCAMDEN-TOWN, a chapelry in the parish of St. PANCRAS, Holborn division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, 3¼ miles (N.W.) from St. Paul's. The population is returned with the parish. It takes its name from Marquis Camden, lessee of the prebendal manor of Cantelows, on which it is situated. The principal part of it has been built within the last few years, and the buildings now in progress promise, when completed, to render it an elegant appendage to the western part of the metropolis. The houses are, in general, respectable and regularly built; the crescent, terrace, and other ranges of building in the upper part of it, are of handsome appearance, and command a partial, but pleasing, view of the Hampstead and Highgate hills. The streets, which are wide and regularly formed, are partially paved, lighted with oil, and watched under the direction of commissioners appointed by act of parliament; and the inhabitants are supplied with water from a conduit into which it is conveyed from Hampstead. The Regent's canal passes through the northern part of the suburb. A veterinary college, in which lectures are delivered on the anatomy and diseases of the horse, was established in 1791, and subsequently confirmed by royal charter; it is under the management of a president, vice-president, directors, and a treasurer, who are elected annually by ballot; a subscription of two guineas per annum, or a donation of twenty guineas, qualifies persons for admission as members: the premises, which are neatly built of brick, include a spacious area, and comprise a school for the instruction of pupils, a theatre, for dissections and the delivery of lectures, a museum for anatomical preparations, and an infirmary, in which is stabling for sixty horses, with paddocks adjoining. The chapel, erected in 1828, on ground given by Marquis Camden, who appoints the minister, is a neat edifice of brick, with a handsome stone portico of the Ionic order at the west end, above which rises a circular turret with a cupola. Near it are a chapel and a cemetery belonging to the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, in connexion with which parish also there are nine almshouses in Bayham-street. Independents and Wesleyan Methodists have each a place of worship. There is a National school, in which one hundred and fifty children of Camden and Kentish towns are instructed. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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