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Lismore Circus is a housing estate located in Gospel Oak in the London Borough of Camden. Constructed in the 1960s and 1970s it replaced the older road layout centred on the circular street of the same name. Lismore Circus takes its name from the Irish aristocrat Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Viscount Lismore who owned the land on which it was ...
Mar 3, 2011 · MONTY Python star Michael Palin proved that his roots really are embedded in Gospel Oak on Sunday when he braved downpours to show his support for the Lismore Circus Community Woods.
Local residents rallied around the idea of maintaining an area of the open space in Lismore Circus in the late 1990s. In June 1998 Michael Palin ceremonially planted a ‘Gospel Oak’ in the vicinity of what is now Lismore Circus Community Woods.
Feb 20, 2010 · This is about the only surviving remnant of a Victorian residential road called Gospel Oak Grove that ran around the west and south side of Lismore Circus, before much of the area was redeveloped in the 1960s following Second World War bomb damage.
Apr 14, 2022 · In a footnote to this jumble of history and hearsay, back in June 1998 Oak Village resident Michael Palin attempted ceremonially to plant a ‘Gospel Oak’ on the fringes of nearby Lismore Circus – but the tree has not survived.
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The Circus has since been absorbed by the extensive redevelopment of the Gospel Oak area. Today it consists of a circular raised grass plot, with large mature London planes, and new railings and is the centre of a modern mixed development of shopping precinct and low and high-rise council blocks.
Local resident Michael Palin attempted in 1998 to re-plant a new oak tree for Gospel Oak in Lismore Circus however, the tree has not survived. [1] The history of Gospel Oak can be traced as far back as the history of Hampstead, which was documented in AD 986 by Ethelred the Unready to the Abbot of Westminster. [4]
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