Community Assembly of Camberwell

The Community Assembly of Camberwell is located in an area of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark. Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant.

This early parish included the neighbouring hamlets of Peckham, Dulwich, Nunhead, and part of Herne Hill (the rest of Herne Hill was in the parish of Lambeth). Until 1889, it was part of the county of Surrey. In 1900 the original parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell.

In 1965, most of the Borough of Camberwell was merged into the London Borough of Southwark. Camberwell appears in the Domesday Book as Cambrewelle . The name may derive from the Old English Cumberwell or Comberwell , meaning Well of the Britons , referring to remaining Celtic inhabitants of an area dominated by Anglo-Saxons. An alternative theory suggests the name may mean Cripple Well, and that the settlement developed as a hamlet where people from the City of London were expelled when they had a contagious disease like leprosy.