Lambeth

The London Borough of Lambeth is a London borough in South London, England and forms part of Inner London.

Lambeth is a long, thin borough (approximately 3 miles wide and 7 miles long). It has no one single "town centre" as such. Great variety exists in the districts. The largest shopping areas are (in order of size) Streatham, Brixton, Vauxhall and Clapham.

According to the 2001 census, Lambeth has a population of 266,169. 62% of the borough is White, 12% Black Caribbean and 12% Black African. 37% of householders are owner–occupiers. Lambeth has the highest population density of the Inner London boroughs.It also has a high unemployment rate and crime levels are also high.

In the northern end of the borough are the Central London districts of the South Bank and Lambeth which have a developing tourist economy while at the very south of the borough are the leafy suburbs of Gipsy Hill, Tulse Hill, West Dulwich and West Norwood. In between the two are built-up and inner-city districts of Brixton, Brixton Hill, Clapham, Clapham Park, Herne Hill, Stockwell and Kennington which are each at different stages of gentrification and have elements of suburban and urban settlement while Vauxhall and South Lambeth are central districts being redeveloped with high density business and residential properties. Streatham sits somewhere between suburban London and inner-city Brixton with the partly suburban and partly built-up areas of Streatham, Streatham Hill and Streatham Vale.

Tower Blocks

 * Ebenezer House
 * Fairford House
 * Hurley House
 * Wates
 * Kerrin Point
 * Brittany Point
 * Ward Point
 * Elkington Point
 * Kelvedon House
 * Rundell Tower

Housing Estates

 * Cotton Gardens Estate
 * Ethelred Estate

For full Wikipedia entry on Lambeth see here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Lambeth