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Selhurst Place, CR0

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Place Name A reference to the nearby area of Selhurst. Selherst was first recorded in 1229 meaning a willow woodland.…

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Radcliffe Road, CR0

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Place Name Named after Emilius Henry Delme Radcliffe, who acquired the Addiscombe estate sometime around 1778 from Charles Clark. Radcliffe…

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Outram Road, CR0

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Place Name Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram (January 29, 1803 – March 11, 1863) was a commander serving with the British…

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Langton Way, CR0

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Place Name Named after Thomas Langton (died January 27, 1501) who had been elected as Archbishop of Canterbury just five…

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Heron Road, CR0

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Place Name Named after the Heron family, who held Addiscombe as a large country estate during the Tudor period. East…

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Godric Crescent, CR0

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Place Name Named after Godric Manor. Godric was a Saxon landowner, who held the land in the time of Edward…

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George Street, CR0

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Place Name Took its name from a former pub called the George and Dragon which stood in Croydon, and is…

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Featherbed Lane, CR0

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Place Name The road is not named after a particularly comfortable place to stay, rather it is a reference to…

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Dunsfold Way, CR0

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Place Name Originally called Castle Hill Crescent when it was first laid out in the 1930s on land which was…

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Davidson Road, CR0

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Place Name Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, (April 7, 1848 – May 25, 1930) served as Archbishop…

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