Great North Wood
51.426507 - 0.077161Koordinaten: 51 ° 25 ' 35 " N, 0 ° 4' 38 " W
The Great North Wood was an oak forest that covered most of the plateau, which began 6 km south of the City of London, and the Sydenham ridge and the southern reaches of the River Effra and its tributaries. Overall, the forest of Croydon to Camberwell extended.
Of the original forest is only a little left, but place names containing the word Norwood, remember him. These are South Norwood, Upper Norwood, West Norwood (up to 1885 as Lower Norwood known). Other place names reflect their past: Woodside, Gipsy Hill, Forest Hill, the Beulah Spa Tavern, Whitehorse Lane and the Thurlow Arms. The "North " in the name Norwood suggests that here the binding to the south of the forest located Croydon was obviously stronger than that at Lambeth or London.
History
The oldest surviving mention of the forest is in court records from the year 1272 in the reign of King Edward III. The area belonged to the Whitehorse family. When Oliver Cromwell seized the territory by the Archbishop of Canterbury, was his area of 3.4 km2, on the but there were only 9,200 geschneitelte oaks. A lot of wood was used in the royal dockyard at Deptford, and for charcoal production and as a timber.
The most famous tree was the Vicar's Oak, which marked the boundary of four parishes: Lambeth, Camberwell, Croydon and an independent part of the parish, including the hamlet of Penge Battersea. At the location of the tree is at Crystal Palace Park today the Westow Hill over in the Anerley Hill Road. It's still the limit of today's boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Croydon and Bromley. According to John Aubrey was the "old remarkable tree " removed before 1718, according to JB Wilson, survived the Vicar's Oak until 1825. Another oak tree that survived the clearcutting by the shipbuilder, was the Question Oak in Westwood. Under it put Charles Spurgeon the students in his Bible school theological questions.
1722 Daniel Defoe wrote of a " country that is more open and wooded than any other part near London, especially Norwood, the parishes of Camberwell, Dullege and Luseme ". On the map of London by John Rocque from 1745 the forest area has only an extension of 4.8 km. It was in jointly owned by Croydon, Penge, Streatham, Knight 's Hill, Dulwich and Westwood.
After the legal abolition of the Commons in 1797 and the sale of the lands of the late Lord Thurlow 1806 large areas of forest were cleared and opened up. It only remained small remnants left, in particular the nature reserves Dulwich Wood and Sydenham Hill Wood
Other recreational facilities, such as the pleasure garden at Knight 's Hill and the spa on the Beulah Hill, fell the building boom of the Victorian era to the victim, which was triggered by the Crystal Palace.
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