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Interesting information about how trams used to run across London including up/down Dog kennel Hill, see link below.


https://londonmodeltramways.webs.com/dogkennelhillhistory.htm


https://londonmodeltramways.webs.com/dogkennelhillmodel.htm


https://www.google.com/search?q=trams+dog+kennel+hill&rlz=1C1AOHY_en-GBGB708GB708&oq=trams+dog+kennel+hill&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.8367j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


Does anyone have any information about where the name Dog Kennel Hill originates from?

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dbboy Wrote:

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> Does anyone have any information about where the

> name Dog Kennel Hill originates from?


From a London history website:


One theory for the name is that Prince George of Denmark had kennels for his hounds here. However, Edward Alleyn, the Elizabethan actor, owned much of what was, at the time, the manor of Dulwich and some of the land here was recorded as Kennels, Kennoldes Croft and Kennold?s Acre. That means a more likely theory is that an earlier landowner (date unknown), one Monsieur de Canel, resided there, and Dog Kennel is a heavily anglicized version of his name.

fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> And speaking of long-gone transport

> infrastructure... Lordship Lane station. Of course

> you can still see some of the old route and tunnel

> in Dulwich woods.


There's some lovely old photos and a painting of Lordship Lane station, the old platforms and so on here: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/lordship_lane/


Further hill name etymology on this website which seems a bit more comprehensive than the link I'd found earlier

https://londonist.com/2016/04/how-london-s-hills-got-their-names

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