Lambeth

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Borough profile

The inner London Borough of Lambeth lies to the south east of the City of London, with a northern boundary on the Thames. It is situated mainly between Southwark to the east and Wandworth to the west, but also shares borders with Croydon to the South, Merton to the southwest, and Westminster to the north-west, with the River Thames separating the two. It has a long and thin shape, measuring seven miles north to south, and about two and a half miles east to west. Major town centres include Brixton (the civic centre), Clapham and Stockwell, North Lambeth (including Waterloo, Vauxhall, Kennington), Norwood and Streatham.

Lambeth was formed in 1965, with the boundaries of the manor and the parish of Lambeth largely the same as the present borough but with the addition of the old parishes of Streatham and Clapham from the former metropolitan borough of Wandsworth. Following massive population decline throughout most of the twentieth century from a high of 410,000 in 1910 to a low of 250,000 in 1980, Lambeth’s population has now begun to creep up and recent estimates put the number of residents at between 271,950 and 286,400. The latter figure would give Lambeth the second highest population in inner London. With about 100 persons per hectare, it is one of the most densely populated boroughs in London, and its already rapidly growing population is projected to grow by a further 13% to 322,000 by 2028.

While the north end of the borough, containing the districts of South Bank and Lambeth (now more often called Waterloo), is characterised by urban land use and developing tourist economies, the south of the borough contains the leafy suburbs of Gipsy Hill, West Dulwich, Tulse Hill and West Norwood. In between the two are the inner city-districts of Brixton, Streatham, Clapham, Herne Hill, Stockwell and Kennington, which are each at different stages of gentrification.

Lambeth is notable for its ethnic diversity, with a particularly high proportion of Black Caribbeans (9.8%) and Black-Africans (9.2%.) While the borough has an extremely young profile, Lambeth is notable for its ethnically complex older population too, substantiating the historical narrative that Lambeth was an important focus and destination for post-World War Two immigrants from the Caribbean and from Africa.

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