is an
Inner City area in the
London Borough Of Lambeth .
Stockwell is 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south south-east of
Charing Cross and located between
Brixton ,
Clapham ,
Vauxhall and
Kennington . The
A3 Road runs through Stockwell.
From the
Thirteenth to the start of the
Nineteenth Century , Stockwell was a rural manor at the edge of London. It included market gardens and
John Tradescant's botanical garden – commemorated in Tradescant Road which was built over it in 1880, and in a memorial outside St Stephen's church. In the nineteenth century it developed as an elegant middle class suburb. Residents included the artist
Arthur Rackham , who was born in South Lambeth Road in 1867, moving with his family to Albert Square when he was 15.
Its social and architectural fortunes in the .
Stockwell and neighbouring South Lambeth are home to the UK's biggest
Portuguese communities, most originating in
Madeira . They have established many cafes, restaurants, bakeries, neighbourhood associations and delicatessens. People of
Caribbean and of
West Africa n origin are also well represented locally.
Famous former and current residents of Stockwell include
Lilian Baylis ,
Edward Thomas ,
Vincent Van Gogh (briefly), French Resistance heroine
Violette Szabo ,
Joanna Lumley ,
Jerry Dammers ,
Roger Moore ,
Roots Manuva and
Will Self . Following the
21 July 2005 London Bombings , Stockwell gained a certain unexpected and unwelcome notoriety as the scene of the shooting by police of a terror suspect (who later proved to be an innocent
Brazil ian electrician,
Jean Charles De Menezes ) in the tube station and of the arrests of other suspects in nearby housing.
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