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Gipsy Hill roads info	Alexandra Drive	Dulwich Wood Avenue	Gipsy Hill

Borders: Central Hill & Dulwich Wood Park Park: Long Meadow Railway station: Gipsy Hill Architecture: Early C19 Views of central London	map Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate, lived in Alexandra Drive	map The Dulwich College Surveyors, Sir Charles Barry and his son, developed the Dulwich Wood Estate from the late 1850s, mostly in the form of large detached houses. The best of the few surviving examples are in Dulwich Wood Avenue http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/	map Architecture: Early Victorian terraces Comments: Fine views of central London. Busy traffic.

Highland Road	Lunham Road	Oaks Avenue	Whiteley Road

map Architecture: Victorian Comments: Fine views of central London. The actress Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990) moved Highland Road, first to 18A and then to a bigger house at No. 30 in which they occupied the whole house. Upper Norwood was her home from 1920 to 1937. Highland Rd was bombed during the war and her homes were destroyed.	map Architecture: Victorian Comments: Fine views of central London. The actress Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990) moved to 2 Lunham Road in 1920. Family moved to Highland Road. Upper Norwood was her home from 1920 to 1937. There is a decommissioned nuclear bunker in Lunham Road. The 18-room bunker was constructed between 1963 and 1966 as part of a block of flats on the Central Hill Estate called Pear Tree House_	map	map