On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Annabel Smyth wrote:

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 at 14:43:28, Tom Anderson
wrote:

what about Seven Sisters? i know that's a road, a roundabout and a
station, but where does the name come from (the Pleiades, i guess, but
how?).

No, I think it was after a line of seven trees (The Seven Sisters) that
once upon a time lined the street. Maybe they were identical, or
something, I don't know.

Well i never.

(Rather like the seven oaks in Sevenoaks, six of which were felled by
the Great Storm of 1987).

How many London placenames (and, moreover, station names) are based on
trees? Seven Sisters, Sevenoaks, Royal Oak, Burnt Oak, Poplar ...
Shepherd's Bush? If you also look for woods and forests, there are loads -
Wealdstone, Theydon Bois, various -woods. Add in the various Greens and
you'd barely think there was as city there at all.

tom

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