Camberwell Green is a hectare (2.5 acres) ofcommon land inCamberwell,south London laid out as a formal park. Its south-west corner is the junction ofCamberwell Road/Denmark Hill andCamberwell New Road/Camberwell Church Street. Its other edges share one point of motor vehicle access. Behind a library at the north-east of the Green is the former Camberwell Magistrate's Court, and at the north-west is a home for the elderly. To the south-west, and overlooking the Green, is aparade of shops including banks and restaurants. The Green is recorded in surveys and accounts of themanor of Camberwell andvestry of Southwark as common land, meaning owned by the lord of the manor but subject to grazing and other rights of local residents. It was bought byCamberwell Parish Vestry in the late 19th century to protect it from development. Camberwell Green is also the name of theLondon Borough of Southwarkelectoral ward around the Green.
Measured from building to building, the open space including roads and pavements, and private frontages (size of thesquare) is 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres), and due to curves its parameters are not fixed; these average about 190 metres by 90 metres.
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