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Bellwood Road 

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Nunhead borders are Queens Road, Consort Road, Laussane Road and Peckham Rye (north). Nunhead Railway station opened in 1872. Here is a map of the area pre-development. The area around the station was developed in the 1870s onwards by several developers including * Dodds and south Nunhead was created by Edward Yates who built the Waverley Park Estate from the 1880s on fields by Nunhead Cemetery.

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Part of the Waverley Park Estate. Named in 1886

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Part of the Waverley Park Estate. Named in 1886

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Previously Hill Road and part of the Newlands estate. Renamed in 1938. Served by the 343 and 484 buses.
       

Harlescott Road

Ivydale Road 

Lanbury Road 

Limesford Road 

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Part of the Waverley Park Estate . Named in 1886 after a Shropshire  place name (the developer Edward Yates was from Shrewsbury). 
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Lengthy road linking Nunhead with Brockley. Part of the Waverley Park Estate. Named in 1886 and developed from 1884-1900. Dale refers to its position betweek Nunhead Hills and Telegraph Hill. Served by P12 bus.

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Part of the Waverley Park Estate . Named in 1887

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Part of the Waverley Park Estate . Named in 1884. Faces the Nunhead Cemetery Wildlife Park.

       

Linden Grove 

St Mary’s Road 

Stuart Road

Surrey Road 

 
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Developed from 1872. A grove of lime trees. Linden Road borders Nunhead Cemetery.
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Runs between St Mary’s Road was named in 1878 after the original St Mary Church which was  consecrated in 1841 and destroyed in WW2.

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Runs from the corner of Peckham rye to Nunhead Cemetery. Part of the Newlands estate and named in 1901. The local pub the Ivy House was previously the Newlands Tavern.

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Part of the Newlands estate and named in 1897. Nunhead originally was in Surrey.

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