Wickers Oake lies off Dulwich Wood Park.
The famous ancient tree called the Vicar’s Oak may have been located where the centre of the roundabout at the southern end of Crystal Palace Parade is now.
The coppice wood to which the tree (the meeting point of four parishes, namely Camberwell, Lambeth, Battersea and Streatham) gave its name is first mentioned in the Dulwich records, as ’Wickers Oake Coppice’ in 1607.
The Vicars Oak itself seems to have been cut down in 1678. In 1854 the new Crystal Palace Company became occupier of substantial parts of Vicars Oak Wood and Kings Wood. The Crystal Palace Parade was constructed just within the eastern boundary of the old coppice wood.
