TREES AND STREET NAMES n 



Barbican, Walnut-tree Walk in Lambeth, and Mulberry 

 Walk in Chelsea. No fewer than nine thoroughfares 

 in London are named after the Elm tree, notably 

 at Well Walk, Hampstead, Elm-tree Road in St. John's 

 Wood, and Nine Elms at Vauxhall. Quite half a dozen 

 places are named in compliment to the Willow ; and the 

 quantity of trees of that name that grow in the marshy 

 grounds of the East End was the origin of Poplar. Pine 

 Road at Cricklewood and Pine Street at Clerkenwell 

 perpetuate the name of our native Scotch Pine. Then 

 there are Cherry-tree Alley and Hazelmere Road at 

 Kilburn to perpetuate orchards that have long passed 

 away. 



Gospel Oak stood to the north of Mansfield Road, 

 the spot being now covered with shops. In Middlesex 

 were five boundary * trees ' three ' Gospel ' and two 

 * Burnt ' Oaks. Of the former, one descendant exists 

 at Han well by the Boston Road Station, another at 

 Frays Farm, one mile north of Uxbridge on the 

 Harefield Road. The remaining three trees survive 

 only in name viz. at Hampstead, Edgware, and 

 Harrow Weald. 



Pope Gregory gave to the missionary priests going 

 into England directions to utilise the sacred places of 

 the pagans for the service of the true God. These 

 spots were again used in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 

 by the clergy in thanksgiving services in the open 

 once a year. Hence now called Gospel or Holy trees. 

 Seven Sisters was so called on account of a circle 

 of seven Elm trees which grew on Page Green, said 

 to have been planted by seven sisters before parting 

 to follow their different roads in life. These trees must 

 have been, according to records, over 300 years old 

 when they were removed in 1852, and seven new trees 



