Camberwell Grove
Camberwell Grove in 2010, looking South
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| Maintained by | Southwark London Borough Council |
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| Location | Camberwell, London, England |
| Postal code | SE5 |
| Coordinates | 51°28′09″N 0°05′08″W / 51.46923°N 0.08560°WCoordinates: 51°28′09″N 0°05′08″W / 51.46923°N 0.08560°W |
| North end | Camberwell Church Street |
| South end | Grove Hill Road |
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| Construction start | mid-1770s |
Camberwell Grove is a residential street in Camberwell, London, England, in the Borough of Southwark. It follows the line of a grove of trees, hence the name. The street once led from a Tudor manor house south to the top of a hill, which afforded a view of the City of London, approximately three miles to the north. Today, the grove is part of Camberwell Grove Conservation area.
In the mid-1770s, when Camberwell was still a rural village, the dilapidated manor house was demolished and the surrounding land subdivided and sold. The first four houses, still standing today (numbered 79–85), were built by speculators at the northern end as a terrace shortly afterwards. They are jointly Grade II listed. Numbers 33–45 also date from this period.
John Lettsom, a doctor, had a villa built at the southern end which was demolished when the estate was broken up in the early 1800s, but one of its cottages, 'The Hermitage' (number 220) survives, at the junction with Grove Hill Road. A side-street, Lettsom Street, and nearby housing estate are named in his honour. The cottage is also Grade II listed. A number of other buildings on the street, including Grove Chapel (built 1819, by David R Roper) and the Georgian crescent terrace of eight houses forming Grove Crescent, are also listed.
The South London and East London railway lines, built by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in the 1860s and now operated by Southeastern and London Overground, pass below the street (in a tunnel to the west and cutting to the east), just east of Denmark Hill station.
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