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Beddington Lane, CR0

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Place Name Directional, this was the main route between Mitcham and the village of Beddington. This street takes its name…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Beddington, Croydon, Sutton

Ashburton Avenue, CR0

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Place Name Named after the Ashburton Estate which got its name when Alexander Baring took over the barony of Ashburton…

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Marsham Close, BR7

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Place Name Named after Robert Marsham, nephew of Viscount Sydney who was Lord of the Manor of Chislehurst. Marsham was the son…

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Ashfield Lane, BR7

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Place Name Descriptive. This road was laid out over the grounds of a property called Woodlands, with mostly pre- and…

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Raggleswood, BR7

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Place Name Named after the former Raggles Wood that disappeared under post-war development. Writing in Webb’s History in 1899, Dorothea…

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The Glebe, BR7

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Place Name Glebe land is that owned by the church to support the local priest, in this case for those…

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Bonar Place, BR7

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Place Name Commemorating the deaths of Thomson and Anne Bonar, residents of Camden Place who were murdered in their bedchamber…

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Station Approach, BR7

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Place Name Descriptive. Chislehurst and Bickley Park opened at the Old Hill/Chislehurst Road junction on July 1, 1865 as part…

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Copperfield Way, BR7

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Place Name One of a cluster of streets named in honour of the great Victorian author Charles Dickens, the others…

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Dickens Drive, BR7

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Place Name One of a cluster of streets named in honour of the great Victorian author Charles Dickens, the others…

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