On the name of Honor Oak, consultations with one of my fellow committee members of Friends of One Tree Hill, resulted in the following response:

"This tree and its predecessors had been know as an "Honor Oak" for several hundred years before Queen Elizabeth rested there on her way to visit sir Richard Bulkeley at Place House, Lewisham in 1602. At that time, Oaks of Honor marked the boundaries of royal and ecclesiastical land and there are many examples of these trees all over England. However, after her visit, the land became known as "Oak of Honor Wood". The name formally changing to One Tree Hill in 1905 on the opening of the park and planting of the current oak."