Camden Town

Camden Town
Location:	London Borough of Camden
First mentioned in:	The Fall of Yquatine
First appearance:	The Flood
Appearances:	see list

You may be looking for the London Borough of Camden.

Camden Town, (TV: The Bounty Hunter) sometimes shortened to Camden, was a London district. (AUDIO: The Spirit Trap)

The town included Camden Market, the location of Cyberdog. (PROSE: Dummy Massacre ^[+]Loading...{"writer":"Unknown","1":"Dummy Massacre (short story)"}, TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

History

In the 1890s, Mrs Vanguard appeared to live at No. 13 Ignatius Road in Camden, until she recovered her true self and claimed she lived in Deptford. (AUDIO: The Spirit Trap)

In the 1960s, Fitz Kreiner spent a few weeks working behind the bar at the Mother Black Cap in Camden Town. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine)

The Eighth Doctor visited Camden Market, and went to The World's End, a local pub. There, he was attacked by Cybermen. (COMIC: The Flood)

Tania Bell and Liv Chenka were going to go on a date to Wakefield's in Camden in 2020. However, they were joined by the Eighth Doctor, Helen Sinclair, Ken and Robin Bright-Thompson, Aisha and Zakia Akhtar and Tony Clare and Ron Winters. (AUDIO: Divine Intervention)

In November 2023, (PROSE: The Star Beast ^[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (novelisation)"]) the Fourteenth Doctor bumped into Donna Noble and her daughter, Rose, in Camden. The Doctor, Rose, and the surrounding public, witnessed a spaceship crash, though Donna missed it while repacking boxes. (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"]) Cleo Proctor and Apex Costa were on a rooftop overlooking Camden, from where they witnessed the same crash. (AUDIO: Redemption ^[+]Loading...["Redemption (audio story)"])

Camden Town as seen on a digital map of London. (TV: The Bounty Hunter)

Camden Town appeared on the Department's digital map of London in 2050. (TV: The Bounty Hunter)

References

Raoul's partner imagined that the "lesbian novelist" Iris "[lay] under a pink bedspread, like Barbara Cartland in Camden Town, a poodle either side and a typewriter on her lap". (PROSE: Hospitality)

Behind the scenes

In the real world, Camden is both a shortened name for Camden Town and the name of the whole Borough of Camden in which the town is located. We currently have pages for both subjects on this wiki. Ambiguous information, which could relate to either the town or the borough, can be found on the London Borough of Camden page.

Actor Anthony Head was born in Camden Town.