The area and road is said to have acquired its name from Queen Anne's husband, Prince George of Denmark, who hunted there.

The present "Fox on the Hill" pub is a hundred yards or so further up (south), on the site of former St Matthew's Vicarage adjacent to a triangle of land rumoured to be a "plague pit" or burial ground.

The name of the area was changed in honour of the husband of Queen Anne, Prince George of Denmark.

The Salvation Army's William Booth Memorial Training College on Champion Park which was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott was completed in 1932; it towers over south London.

It has a similar monumental impressiveness to Gilbert Scott's other south London buildings, Battersea Power Station and Bankside Power Station (now housing Tate Modern), although its simplicity is partly the result of repeated budget cuts during its construction: much more detail, including carved Gothic stonework surrounding the windows, was originally planned.

From Camberwell Green northwards the land is much lower and very gently sloped as in northern Brixton at its other foot, in the west.