London Borough of Lambeth
| London Borough of Lambeth | |
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| status | London Borough |
| region | Greater London |
| Administrative headquarters | Brixton |
| surface | 26.82 km² |
| Residents | 325.917 |
| was standing | 2018 |
| ONS code | 00AY |
| Website | www.lambeth.gov.uk |
The London Borough of Lambeth [ ˈlæmbəθ ] is a borough of London . It is located immediately south of the city center in the "knee" of the Thames on its eastern bank opposite the City of Westminster . The name Lambeth, mentioned in a document in 1062 as Lambehitha and 1089 as Lamhytha , goes back etymologically to the Old English words lamb ( lamb ) and hȳth (port, landing point). When the Greater London administrative region was founded in 1965, it emerged from the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth and the districts of Clapham and Streatham in the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth .
The population in 2008 was composed of 67.3% white, 5.6% Asian, 19.8% black and 1.3% Chinese.
In 2011, 57.1% identified as white, 29.9% black, 8% Asian, 0.6% Arab and 4.2% mixed.
Districts
Herne Hill and Dulwich are partly part of the London Borough of Southwark . The Crystal Palace district is also spread over several city districts.
Attractions
Sports
Herne Hill is home to one of the oldest and most traditional cycle tracks in Great Britain. The track cycling competitions of the Olympic Games were held there in 1948 .
Personalities
- Sydney Allard (1910–1966), racing driver
- Norman Bailey (1857-1923), football player
- Gordon Beck (1936–2011), jazz musician
- Ronald Arthur Biggs (1929–2013), member of the British mail train robber gang
- David Bowie (1947-2016), pop musician
- Jeremy Brett (1933–1995), actor
- Naomi Campbell (* 1970), model
- John Collier (1901–1980), British-American writer
- Deborah Anne Dyer alias Skin (* 1967), musician
- Buster Edwards (1931–1994), member of the British mail train robber gang
- Martin Onslow Forster (1872-1945), chemist
- Dominic Grieve (* 1956), politician
- Tommy Hampson (1907-1965), middle distance runner
- David Haye (born 1980), boxer
- Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), pilot and founder of the first English flight school
- Maxi Jazz (* 1957), musician
- John Winter Jones (1805-1881), librarian
- Jo Ann Kelly (1944–1990), blues singer and guitarist
- Ken Livingstone (* 1945), politician
- Henry Maudslay (1771–1831), mechanical engineer
- Edward Moore (1712–1757), playwright and writer
- Roger Moore (1927-2017), actor
- Scott Parker (born 1980), football player
- Chris Powell (* 1969), football coach
- Gary Raymond (born 1935), actor
- Paul Simonon (* 1955), musician
- James Sowerby (1757-1822), naturalist and painter
- Freddie Tomlins (1919-1943), figure skater
- Jack Trevor (1893–1976), actor
- Peter Twinn (1916-2004), code breaker
- Roots Manuva (1972), rapper
- Jadon Sancho (2000), football player
Web links
- Lambeth Borough Council (county council)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mid 2018 Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- ^ AD Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, p. 175
- ^ ONS mid-2007 Ethnic Group Population Estimates. (PDF, 89 KB) (No longer available online.) Greater London Authority, October 2009, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on May 23, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ N , 0 ° 7 ′ W