Place Name The name Purley means a wood clearing with pears trees and was first recorded in 1200 as Pirlee…
Place Name Named after Mitchley Wood, first recorded as Mitcherley Wood in 1843, in Sanderstead. Mitchley comes from the Old…
Place Name After the village in Purley, it means the little place by the oak tree distinguishing it from Great…
Place Name Early spellings of the local area have it as Hallinges in 1200 suggesting this may be the Healla’s…
Place Name Named after a former Lord of the Manor of Palmers Or Pasmer also known as Tylehost which was…
Place Name Until the coming of the railway and the ensuing development at the end of the 19thCentury, Thornton Heath…
Place Name Named after John de Kemsing and his wife Idonea (also spelt Idonia) who took ownership of Norbury Manor…
Place Name Named after a house that stood on Beulah Hill near a mineral spring. The house, which was demolished…
Place Name Named after the church which was opened in 1934 after locals complained that the nearest parish church, St…
Place Name After the local name in Kenley which goes back to Saxon times, meaning wheat hill. It was first…