![]() Our author concludes that "our Cold Harbour was a name given to any cold abode, cold retreat, brought over to England by our Saxon ancestors-Cold Harbour = Cold Station, Cold House, Cold Lodge." And thus has a wider meaning than that attributed by the supporters of a basic type of lodgings. This etymology was accepted by the authors of the dictionary Merriam-Webster. There is a village in Germany and another in Austria called Kaltherberg. In this, the author remarks upon relatively early equivalent place names in Germany and traces back the origins of Coldharbour/Cold Harbour to the Old High German Kalte Herberge. Hahn, in Notes and Queries Series 3, 7, 253–254 (1 April 1865) and later in Series 3, 8, 71–72 (22 July 1865) wrote an article entitled "Remarks on the Origin of 'Cold Harbour'". ![]() They were generally little more than open-faced barns or animal shelters. There would be a roof, door and possibly a simple hearth, although it was the traveller's responsibility to gather fuel. ![]() Unlike an inn, there were no staff, food or drink to be had. This is cited in 'The Streets' by Anthony Quinn (2012) as the place the Camberwell beauty was first sighted.Ī "cold harbour" was an uninhabited shelter for travellers, often along a well-known route, somewhat similar to a modern bothy. Both closed in 2019.Ī possible derivation of the name is Cool Arbour Lane, dating from the time Camberwell was in the country. Police Safer Neighborhoods Teams worked from number 411 with another base near Loughborough Junction at number 236. With the support of community leaders and shop owners, plans were put in place to set up a mini-police station on Coldharbour Lane in the former premises of a drug dealer. In 1981 the Brixton riots occurred in roads near Coldharbour Lane and some windows were broken on the street itself. The lane close by Brixton Market became derelict by the mid-1960s, when many drug houses flourished dealing mainly in cannabis. įormer British Prime Minister John Major lived in a flat at 144 Coldharbour Lane when a child from 1955 to 1959. The Loughborough Junction area, surrounding the railway station, marks the approximate centre point of Coldharbour Lane and the change in postcode from SE5 to SW9.Ĭoldharbour Lane was formerly known as Camberwell Lane. The other end of Coldharbour Lane meets Acre Lane in central Brixton to form the A2217. Between the junctions of Coldharbour Lane and Denmark Hill in Camberwell SE5 and Coldharbour Lane and Denmark Road lies part of the boundary between Lambeth and Southwark boroughs. The road is over 1 mile (1.6 km) long with a mixture of residential, business and retail buildings – the stretch of Coldharbour Lane near Brixton Market contains shops, bars and restaurants. ![]() Coldharbour Lane is a road in south London, England, that leads south-westwards from Camberwell to Brixton. ![]()
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