A Travel Guide to Camberwell
In this guide you’ll find beautiful parks, wonderful cakes, elegant clothing, intoxicating drinks and excellent coffee - as well as an internationally renowned art college. There are galleries, ghosts, a graveyard, a Turkish spa, a Greek Cathedral and Britain’s first purpose built mental health hospital.
Robert Browning was born here, Michael Caine grew up here, Charlie Chaplin worked here, Dan Leno was detained here and John Ruskin left in disgust when the railways ruined his view. A Travel Guide to Camberwell was originally researched, written and designed by local residents in 2012. It was developed by Camberwell Arts with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and was last updated in 2023.
OUR GUIDES
Colour in Camberwell
To celebrate of 25 years of Camberwell Arts Festival we invited 25 local artists to contribute artwork to a special colouring book - Colour in Camberwell.Colouring books are selling for £5 to support Camberwell Art’s Festival programme.
Email hello@camberwellarts.org.uk to purchase a copy.
Camberwell Cookbook
The Camberwell Community Cookbook: a world of eating from one eclectic London neighbourhood. Dishing up recipes, stories and art from the kitchens of Camberwell, we hope this book will inspire you to get cooking, discover new culinary treasures and share them with your family, friends and neighbours.
Cataloguing Camberwell
We invited local residents to create a collective catalogue of this year’s festival of 20 commissioned artworks, 20 events and exhibitions that looked back, forwards and sideways at Camberwell and all it has to offer.
CREATIVE CAMBERWELL