Place Name Named after the common thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers (Ulex europaeus). It was the gorse that covered the…
Place Name When it was first laid out in 1874 as a cul-de-sac from the west side of Bensham Manor…
Place Name Named in honour of Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew (January 1761 – September 2, 1834), who in 1828…
Place Name Said to be a corruption of John Gilpin, a former occupant of Colliers Water Farm, who became immortalised…
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…