Acacia Grove, SE21

Place Name

Built in 1866. According to Camberwell Place and Street Names and their Origin there may have been a Masonic connection but as the Dulwich Society points out: “[It] is rather tenuous, and there is no convincing explanation for the name, except as the epitome of suburbia”. There are at least a dozen examples of places in London named after this type of tree. Developers would often name streets after local flora.

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