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Gospel Oak


Supposed to owe its quaint name of comparatively recent origin to the fact that portions of the Gospel used to be read beneath a spreading oak at the ceremony of beating the bounds of the parish, discontinued since 1896. (Skirts of the Great City, Mrs. A. G. Bell, p. 9)

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