Herne Hill, Mayall Road, SE24 - geograph

Mayall Road is a road in

Herne Hill Herne Hill is a district in South London, approximately four miles from Charing Cross and bordered by Brixton, Camberwell, Dulwich, and Tulse Hill. It sits to the north and east of Brockwell Park and straddles the boundary between the borou ...

and Brixton. It runs parallel to

Railton Road Railton Road runs between Brixton and Herne Hill in the London Borough of Lambeth. The road is designated the B223. At the northern end of Railton Road it becomes Atlantic Road, linking to Brixton Road at a junction where the Brixton tube stat ...

and the area between them was known in the 1970s as the ''Front Line'' - an area of troubled

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and conflict with the police. A

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is held there every year during the August bank holiday.

Notable residents

Darcus Howe Leighton Rhett Radford "Darcus" Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017)"Civil ...

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Notable residents

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