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Streets, squares, mews and lanes. The most charming streetscapes in London. Some well known, some hidden gems.
A Georgian village street of white fingerposts and white-painted houses that the Dulwich Estate has kept a village since Edward Alleyn's day.
Village streets
Edward Alleyn, the actor who played Marlowe's Faustus and Tamburlaine, bought the manor of Dulwich in 1605 and left it to the college he founded, and his estate still owns the ground, still collects a rent from every house in the street and still decides what colour a front door may be, which is why a mile from Brixton there is a village high street of Georgian houses, an old burial ground behind railings, a village school and wooden fingerposts painted white. Christ's Chapel, where Alleyn is buried, and the old college buildings close the street at the south end, with Dulwich Picture Gallery, the oldest public gallery in England, just beyond in Gallery Road; the college's Victorian buildings by Charles Barry the younger are further down.
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