Place Name Commemorating the area’s industrial heritage. From the mid-19thCentury, the clay-based soil was used to make bricks for the…
Place Name Recalling the medieval area of Benchesham, the former name of the manor that covered modern day Norbury and…
Place Name Named after one of the five rivers that the British Army had to navigate as they headed towards…
Place Name Alluding to the Croydon village of Kenley, which means Cœna’s woodland clearing. It was first mentioned in the…
Place Name It means the northern fortification or manor house, lying as the town does to the north of Croydon.…
Place Name Thornton, which gives its name to the wider area of Thornton Heath, may mean a farm blighted by…
Place Name General Sir Redvers Henry Buller (December 7, 1839 – June 2, 1908) who led British forces against Louis…
Place Name Named after the South African region that came into British hands on May 4, 1843 after the British government…
Place Name Named after Sir Nicholas Carew (circa 1496–3 – March 1539) who was granted the Manor of Coulsdon, previously…
Place Name In Surrey. One of a number of roads laid out on the old Netherne Hospital grounds which are…