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Tag: Nunhead and Queen’s Road

Barset Road, SE15

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Place Name Thought to be a reference to Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, set in rural Victorian Wiltshire – set in…

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Coll’s Road, SE15

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Place Name Benjamin Colls (November 4, 1813 – August 25, 1878), was a painter and director who founded the building…

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Evelina Road, SE15

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Place Name Thought to be a reference to the novel Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the…

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Evan Cook Close, SE15

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Place Name Evan Cook (1865 – September 24, 1947) was born into a working class family in Greenwich but by…

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Nunhead Lane, SE15

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Place Name The main road leading from Dulwich to Nunhead. Legend has it that the area was named after a…

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Filed under: Dissolution of the monasteries, Nunhead, Nunhead and Queen's Road, Southwark, streets named after women

Nunhead Grove, SE15

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Place Name Legend has it that the area was named after a brave Mother Superior who defied Henry VIII as…

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Nunhead Green, SE15

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