At the heart of the London Borough of Camden resides Camden Town, named after Sir Charles Pratt, the first Earl of Camden, a radical 18th-century lawyer and politician who acquired the land through marriage and started its development in 1791, where it began as barely more than a few houses alongside a main road of those he granted leases to. It did not become a significant location until the opening of the Regent’s Canal to traffic in the early 1800s, when the rise in transportation brought more employment opportunities to the land.

Located just inside the West Door of Westminster Abbey, the Grave of the Unknown Warrior is one of the most poignant and visited memorials in the United Kingdom. It marks the final resting place of an unidentified British soldier who died during World War I, chosen to represent all those who lost their lives in war and were never identified or properly buried.