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Lismore Circus

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To the north of Lismore Circus a group of small adjacent residential streets are named Oak Village and numbers as a single entity. It is named due to its proximity to the old Gospel Oak that gave the district its name. Although it was planned to demolish these as part of the redevelopment of Lismore
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urban planning the Gospel Oak area was marked down for comprehensive redevelopment. In the original 1962 plan the rebuilt Lismore Circus was to have a shopping centre but the new Camden council abandoned this in 1965. Instead a
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Circus, the residents successfully campaigned to save the roads from destruction. Today Oak Village largely retains its nineteenth century appearance. Oak Village once also included a stretch of properties close to
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was chosen to be built. Much of the Victorian streetscape was demolished with only a few stretches surviving including Elaine Grove. The redevelopment was completed in completed in 1981
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who owned the land on which it was built on. In 1855 he envisaged it and the surrounding streets to be a "spacious suburb of semi-detached
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passes underneath the estate and from 1868 until 1916 it was served by
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including the Old Oak pub but these were later renumbered as part of
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This London road or road transport-related article is a
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Lismore Circus takes its name from the Irish aristocrat
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Surviving nineteenth century houses on Elaine Grove.
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Lismore Road

housing estate
Gospel Oak
London Borough of Camden
Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Viscount Lismore
villas
garden square

Ordnance Survey
Midland Main Line
Haverstock Hill railway station
Victorian era

Second World War
tower block

Gospel Oak station
Mansfield Road
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Streets in the London Borough of Camden
Hampstead
London road stubs

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