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The riverbank in Lambeth, Surrey

Lambeth Lambeth is a Surrey town on the south bank of the River Thames long since deep within the metropolitan conurbation. Lambeth has a mixture of down-market, working class estates and wealthy streets given to commerce and residences. Some of the dynamics shaping the town are Waterloo Station, Westminster Bridge and other bridges upstream, and the riverside. Lambeth Palace has been the main residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury since the Middle Ages. A more recent civic building is County Hall on the banks of the Thames, glowering at the Palace of Westminster in its former role as headquarters of the former London County Council but now a hotel. (Read more)