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Local Information for Camberley

Camberley is a town in Surrey, England, about twenty-nine miles to the south-west of London. The population in 2001 was 47,123.

Camberley can be reached by the A30, the M3 motorway and by train from London Waterloo station. There are small airports nearby at Blackbushe and Farnborough.

Immediately surrounding towns and villages include Bagshot, Deepcut, Farnborough, Frimley and Sandhurst. The Old Dean is a council estate on the outskirts of Camberley, most of which was built in the 1950s on the "Old Dean Common" for residents of heavily bombed Surrey-areas homeless after World War II. Many of the roads on that half of the Old Dean are named after those areas (the others are named after places on the common).

Camberley is administered by Surrey County Council and Surrey Heath Borough Council. The parliamentary constituency is Surrey Heath and the MP is Michael Gove, a Conservative.

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