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Tag: Croydon

Beddington Cross, CR0

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Place Name Reconfiguration of the site means that the cross element of this street is now difficult to define. However,…

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

Beddington Farm Road, CR0

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Place Name Well, this was agricultural land, but the farm being referred to here didn’t grow any crops or raise…

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Filed under: agriculture, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Beddington North, Croydon, industry

Ballards Rise, CR2

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…

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Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Croydon, Croydon South, Medieval, South Croydon, Village Selsdon and Addington

Ballards Way, CR2

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…

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Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Croydon, Croydon South, Medieval, South Croydon, Village Selsdon and Addington

Ballards Farm Road, CR2

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Place Name Agricultural heritage. Selsdon Wood was once part of the Selsdon Park estate, owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury…

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Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Croydon, Medieval, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon

Lower Addiscombe Road, CR0

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PLACE NAME A reference to the earlier Addiscombe Road, which according to East Croydon Community Organisation (ECCO) first appeared on…

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Filed under: Addiscombe East, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Croydon, Old English

Addiscombe Road, CR0

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Place Name Eadda or Æddi’s estate from an Anglo-Saxon personal name and the word camp, meaning an enclosed area in…

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Filed under: Addiscombe, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Croydon, Old English

Waddington Avenue, CR5

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Place Name Remembering the hamlet which was subsumed into Kenley in the 20thCentury. The name Waddington goes back to Saxon…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Croydon, Croydon South, Old Coulsdon, Old English

Addington Village Road, CR0

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Place Name Previously part of Featherbed Lane. The name Addington is a corruption of Eddintone, which was recorded in the…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Croydon, name change, Selsdon and Addington Village

Addington Road, CR0

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Place Name Originally this road only extended between Longley Road and Lambeth Road in the mid-1860s. The name Addington is…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Broad Green, Croydon

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