Place Name Selsdon Park was originally a Tudor mansion which was sold in 1805 to George Smith MP, who resigned…
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Place Name A street leading off the main Selsdon Road. The name Selsdon was first recorded sometime around AD880 as…
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Place Name The local area King’s Wood does not get its name from any royal connection but rather a local…
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Place Name This is one of a small cluster of streets in the area named after golfing terms, the others…
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Place Name Recalling the medieval area of Benchesham, the former name of the manor that covered modern day Norbury and…
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PLACE NAME Early spellings of the local area have it as Hallinges in 1200 suggesting this may be the Healla’s…
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Place Name Named after the local area of Croham Hurst, which was first recorded as Crawham in 1225, meaning the…
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Place Name Descriptive. Local historian David Clark says it is named after its position, literally south of Norbury Brook which…
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