Camberwell Grove

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Coordinates: 51°28′09″N 0°05′08″W / 51.46923°N 0.08560°W / 51.46923; -0.08560
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Camberwell Grove
Camberwell Grove in 2010, looking South
Maintained bySouthwark London Borough Council
LocationCamberwell, London, England
Postal codeSE5
Coordinates51°28′09″N 0°05′08″W / 51.46923°N 0.08560°W / 51.46923; -0.08560
North endCamberwell Church Street
South endGrove Hill Road
Construction
Construction startmid-1770s
Camberwell Grove (diagonal) on an 1890s Ordnance Survey map.
Grove Chapel

Camberwell Grove is a residential street in

Conservation area.[2]

Creation

In the mid-1770s, when Camberwell was still a rural village, the dilapidated manor house was demolished and the surrounding land

Grade II listed.[3] Numbers 33–45 also date from this period.[4]

19th century

John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1 Nov 1815), physician, with his family in the garden of his house in Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Oil painting by an unknown English artist, ca.1786. Wellcome Library

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.[1] A side-street, Lettsom Street,[b] Lettsom Gardens,[c] a community garden,[5] and a nearby housing estate are named in his honour. The cottage is also Grade II listed.[6][d] A number of other buildings on the street, including Grove Chapel (built 1819, by David R Roper)[7][e] and the Georgian crescent terrace of eight houses forming Grove Crescent,[8][f] are also listed.

The

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[g] (in a tunnel to the west and cutting to the east), just east of Denmark Hill station
.

In 2012, the street was the subject of an episode of the BBC series

Charles Booth.[1] Booth assessed the social class of the residents in the street in 1889. The northern end was categorised as middle class "fairly comfortable" and "well-to-do", with parts of the southern end categorised as upper class "wealthy". However, on returning to the street ten years later the social class of residents was recorded as "declining".[4]

20th century

Some of the houses on the grove were damaged by bombing in World War II, and subsequently demolished.[1] The site is now occupied by the flats numbered 100–138.[h]

In the 1960s, a proposal to build an elevated motorway across the grove, above the railway, in the style of the Westway, was opposed and eventually overturned by local residents.[1] The artists David Hepher and his wife Janet bought a house on the grove in 1961, and set up studios there.[1] In 1967 the television producer Jeremy Bennett bought a house there.[1]

Coordinates

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  1. ^ Numbers 79-85: 51°28′17″N 0°05′13″W / 51.47142°N 0.08708°W / 51.47142; -0.08708 ("First houses, numbered 79-85")
  2. ^ Junction with Lettsom Street: 51°28′12″N 0°05′10″W / 51.47008°N 0.08619°W / 51.47008; -0.08619 ("Junction with Lettsom Street")
  3. ^ The Hermitage: 51°28′00″N 0°04′53″W / 51.46659°N 0.08140°W / 51.46659; -0.08140 ("Lettsom Gardens")
  4. ^ The Hermitage: 51°27′57″N 0°04′59″W / 51.46577°N 0.08314°W / 51.46577; -0.08314 ("The Hermitage")
  5. ^ Grove Chapel: 51°28′10″N 0°05′11″W / 51.46945°N 0.08637°W / 51.46945; -0.08637 ("Grove Chapel")
  6. ^ Grove Crescent: 51°28′06″N 0°05′03″W / 51.46822°N 0.08430°W / 51.46822; -0.08430 ("Grove Crescent")
  7. ^ Rail line: 51°28′09″N 0°05′08″W / 51.46914°N 0.08554°W / 51.46914; -0.08554 ("rail line")
  8. ^ Flats, 100–138: 51°28′08″N 0°05′08″W / 51.46876°N 0.08563°W / 51.46876; -0.08563 ("Bomb site, now flats 100–138")

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Camberwell Grove". The Secret History of Our Streets. Episode 2. 13 June 2012. BBC. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  2. Southwark Council. Archived from the original
    on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  3. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1378414)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  4. ^
    ISBN 9781849904506
    .
  5. ^ "History". Lettsom Gardens Association. Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  6. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1378433)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1378434)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  8. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1378426)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 October 2013.

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