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Excerpt from The Great North Wood: With a Geological, Topographical and Historical Description of Upper, West and South Norwood, in the County of Surrey In Rocque's Map of the Country near ten miles round London, published in the year 1745, the North Wood appears to extend for more than three miles across its widest part, from north-east to south-west; from the lower part of White Horse Wood to Dulwich Wells by the Green Man. To say nothing of a mile of wood immediately adjoining on the north-east, marked on the Map referred to Oak of Arnon, and now represented by Honor Oak. The districts known as Norwood, Knight's Hill, Gipsy Hill, Dulwich, Forest Hill, Sydenham and Penge, as well as a large part of the parish of Croydon, doubtless were all originally included in the great North Wood. But in course of time many of the oak trees disappeared, and large tracts of ground, formerly forest land, gradually assumed the appearance of open commons until one after another, these were enclosed and at length broken up into numerous small allotments. A great part of the North Wood disappeared soon after the Croydon Inclosure at the commencement of this century. In 1808 an Act was passed for inclosing N orwood Common. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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