Place Name Named after John Ownstead, a servant of Queen Elizabeth I in 1591, who owned Sanderstead Manor, which included…
Place Name Named after Mabel Greville, the great-granddaughter of George Smith, the East India Company director who turned Selsdon Park…
Place Name This street along with neighbouring Norman Avenue were named after the children of a local builder called Kendall,…
Place Name Named after the former owner of Heathfield Lodge, Samuel Norman Cowley, a successful cloth and linen merchant, whose…
Place Name Directional. First recorded sometime around AD880 as Selesdune this was named after a Saxon – or possibly a…
Place Name This is on the Selsdon Vale estate laid out between 1960 and 1972. However development of this area…
Place Name Named after the local village of Sanderstead which means literally a sandy place or homestead. Its origins go…
Place Name The name Purley means a wood with pear trees and was first recorded in 1200 as Pirlee and…
Place Name This is an ancient Iron Age track that led from the Sussex ironfields via Farleigh, Titsey and Limpsfield…
Place Name Named after Mitchley Wood – or Mitcherley Wood as it was recorded in 1843 – in Sanderstead. Mitchley…