Genealogy Australia

In 1791, what was then an area mostly of fields, building plots were laid out on land east of the High Street owned by the Marquess of Camden. Within 30 years houses covered some of the fields and Camden Town had become part of London's sprawl. It was not a grand development, because it was blighted from the late 1830s by the extension of the Birmingham railway. Meanwhile Lord Southampton was building far more desirable, grander houses nearer to Primrose Hill and facing Regents Park, helped by the fact that it was further away from the railway.