Place Name Named after the fortress in 1868 taken by the British Expedition to Abyssinia to rescue several missionaries and…
Place Name Wickham is a Saxon word meaning a settlement on the site of an earlier Roman settlement – a…
Place Name Named after the River Wandle that flows nearby, but the name is comparatively new. It was a back-formation…
Place Name Named after the local area in Croydon meaning woad hill, the plant used for dying material. One of…
Place Name Named after the Battle of Tugela Heights, which ran from February 14 until February 27, 1900 during the Second…
Place Name Named after Trojan Ltd, a British car maker which operated from a plant in Croydon from the 1920s…
Place Name Named after Sir Purbeck Temple, a member of the Privy Council at the time of Charles II, who…
Place Name Named after the local area it means bright woodland, without a forest canopy blocking the light. It has…
Place Name A reference to the nearby area of Selhurst. Selherst was first recorded in 1229 meaning a willow woodland.…
Place Name Named after Emilius Henry Delme Radcliffe, who acquired the Addiscombe estate sometime around 1778 from Charles Clark. Radcliffe…