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Southernmost point in London

…is nowadays part of the London Borough of Croydon, while Chaldon falls within Surrey’s Tandridge district. Shown in Street View below, the (unsignposted and uninhabited)…

Mitcham

…route was subsequently used by steam trains and latterly the Croydon Tramlink. The opening of Mitcham Junction station in 1868 attracted noxious industries rather than…

Wallington

…of the Croydon to Epsom railway in 1847 triggered lasting changes. The owner of the Carshalton Park estate forbade the building of a station on…

EU Referendum

…boroughs of Sutton, Croydon and Bromley were collectively split 51/49 in favour of ‘Remain’, with a relatively high turnout. Although there are local variations (especially…

Monks Orchard

Monks Orchard, Croydon/Bromley An interwar middle-class housing development located on the borders of Beckenham and Shirley, built in the grounds of a world-famous mental hospital…

Norwood New Town

Norwood New Town, Croydon ‘The world’s first new town’ (according to some) as we understand the term today, now demolished but still named on Ordnance…

Carshalton Beeches

…burial mounds located on the north side of Oaks Park. For centuries it was strip-farmed common land. Because the Sutton to Croydon railway line was…

Little Roke, Croydon A relatively affordable residential locality in north Kenley, situated immediately south-west of Riddlesdown Little Roke Road Little Roke’s name means (indirectly) ‘little place…

Smitham

Smitham, Croydon The former name of Coulsdon Town station Smitham’s name was first recorded in 1331 as Smetheden, and derives from words meaning ‘smooth valley’.…

Spring Park

Spring Park, Croydon/Bromley A primarily interwar settlement bordered by Monks Orchard to the north, West Wickham to the east, Addington to the south and Shirley…