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Chalk Farm

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Geography
History
Economy
Demography
Transport
Neighbouring places Nearest stations
References

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|region = London
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|population = 24,977
|population_ref= Informal tube-named district: maximal two-ward definition based on 2011 census^[1]
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|post_town = LONDON
|postcode_area = NW
|postcode_district = NW1, NW3, NW5
|dial_code = 020
|london_borough = Camden
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|static_image_caption = Junction of Adelaide Road and Haverstock Hill, outside Chalk Farm Underground station
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Chalk Farm is a small urban district of northwest London, England immediately north of Camden Town and currently split equally between the electoral wards of Camden Town and Primrose Hill in the south and Haverstock in the north.

Geography

The land slopes upwards more steeply to the north-west and abruptly to form a knoll to the south-west which is Primrose Hill. Chalk Farm Underground station is the closest underground network station to all parts if that is the defining criterion. The same is true of much of the upmarket western residential definition and green (Regents Park definition) of Primrose Hill that is more associated with Chalk Hill. The south of the area has regular residents on its broadest definition, which is capable of including Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller among the highest-grossing early 21st century 'Camden set' of writers, artists and actors, but equally, parts of both wards have some stubborn poverty and a significant minority of their housing is social housing.

History

Its name was formerly Chalcot when it was a hamlet of the once vast Hornsey parish (centred on a village of the same name). Before the post-1791 development of Camden Town, the residents of Primrose Hill who did not live on the green hill were divided between Hornsey and St Pancras villages. It is in this vein that many residents of Primrose Hill seek alternatives to being considered part of Camden, however under the London Government Act 1963, Camden became the overall name for the borough and a convenient, neutrally loaded term for all inchoate and non-historic districts by being of carefully planned late Georgian origin rather than named after the London Underground network which has seen various changes to station names and debatable associations with stations.^[2]

Economy

Chalk Farm equates to the northern neighbourhood of Camden Town and features many lively pubs, live music venues, and restaurants.

Within immediate reach of the tube station is The Roundhouse, a former circular railway engine turntable shed converted to 360° arts and performance use.

Chalk Farm contains Haverstock School Business & Enterprise College (formerly Haverstock Comprehensive School).

Camden College of English was in Chalk Farm

For over 70 years major bus routes were operated from Chalk Farm bus garage, in Harmood Street, now long gone. Today the long-established route 27 and the newer route 393 both terminate at Chalk Farm. These buses reach opposite destinations outside central London: Chiswick Business Park and Clapton respectively.

[https://www.walden.co.uk Walden Books] is a long-established secondhand bookshop located just off Chalk Farm Road.

Demography

Being a convenient division ('district') with no formal definition, the maximal definition of Chalk Farm takes in the bulk of two current electoral wards which are set out below, with relevant land use and home ownership statistics from the 2011 census.

**2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005^[1]**
Output area	Homes owned outright	Owned with a loan	Socially rented	Privately rented	Other	km² green spaces	km² roads	km² water	km² domestic gardens	km² domestic buildings	km² non-domestic buildings	Usual residents	km²
Haverstock ward	677	727	2583	1156	111	0.10	0.01	0.00	0.15	0.10	0.08	12364	0.73
Camden Town with Primrose Hill ward	1122	882	1802	1974	125	0.16	0.02	0.02	0.18	0.15	0.17	12613	1.17

Transport

Neighbouring places

Primrose Hill
Camden Town
Regent's Park
Kentish Town
Maitland Park
St John's Wood
Swiss Cottage

Nearest stations

Chalk Farm on the north-south Northern line, Edgware branch.

The nearest London Overground station (east-west) is centred {{convert|0.5|mi}} east:

Kentish Town West

References

1. ^¹Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
2. ^{{cite book|author=Edward Walford|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45237|title=Old and New London: Vol. 5|year=1878|accessdate=9 August 2011}}

2 : Areas of London|Districts of the London Borough of Camden

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