Venues in Camden
Camden turns on its landmarks — a restored Victorian theatre, the Roundhouse’s engine shed and a run of music rooms — spaces with cultural weight and room for a crowd, north of the West End.
KOKO
Camden — Event Space
Up to 1,500 guests
A restored Victorian theatre in Camden, reopened in 2022 with the House of KOKO members' club threaded through it. The domed auditorium and its balconies take up to 1,500 for whole-venue private hire.
The Roundhouse
Camden — Event Space
Up to 1,800 guests
A Grade II*-listed Victorian engine shed in Camden, now a landmark performance house whose circular Main Space holds up to 1,800 beneath a vast iron-and-glass roof.
/ About Camden▾
Camden Town took shape from the 1790s on land held by the Earl of Camden, and its grain was set by two arrivals: the Regent’s Canal and the railway. The Roundhouse on Chalk Farm Road was built in 1846–47 as an engine shed for the London & North Western Railway, its circular form housing a locomotive turntable; it served that purpose barely a decade before becoming a warehouse, was listed in 1954, and reopened as a performing arts venue in 1964. Today Camden reads as one of London’s cultural quarters — markets, live music and a restless creative crowd, immediately north of the West End.
The spaces that define it are converted industrial and theatrical. The Roundhouse remains a working arts venue. KOKO on Camden High Street opened in 1900 as the Camden Theatre — inaugurated by the actress Ellen Terry on Boxing Day that year — later ran as the Camden Palace, and reopened in April 2022 after a long restoration. The markets add another register: Camden Lock Market began in 1974 with sixteen craft stalls beside the Hampstead Road Lock, while the neighbouring Stables Market occupies the former Pickfords stables and a Grade II listed horse hospital that once tended the animals hauling barges and vans.
Dining runs from canalside terraces along the water to the food stalls threaded through the market halls, with Regent’s Park Road and Parkway carrying the more settled restaurants. The Regent’s Canal is the through-line, its towpath linking Camden Lock west towards Regent’s Park and east to King’s Cross. Camden Town and Chalk Farm stations sit on the Northern line, placing the area a few minutes from the City and the West End, with Euston mainline terminus a short walk south. It remains loud, layered and unmistakably itself.