Place Name Selsdon Park was originally a Tudor mansion which was sold in 1805 to George Smith MP, who resigned…
Place Name A street leading off the main Selsdon Road. The name Selsdon was first recorded sometime around AD880 as…
Place Name The local area King’s Wood does not get its name from any royal connection but rather a local…
Place Name This is one of a small cluster of streets in the area named after golfing terms, the others…
Place Name Recalling the medieval area of Benchesham, the former name of the manor that covered modern day Norbury and…
PLACE NAME Early spellings of the local area have it as Hallinges in 1200 suggesting this may be the Healla’s…
Place Name Named after the local area of Croham Hurst, which was first recorded as Crawham in 1225, meaning the…
Place Name Descriptive. Local historian David Clark says it is named after its position, literally south of Norbury Brook which…
Place Name Remembering the hamlet which was subsumed into Kenley in the 20thCentury. The name Waddington goes back to Saxon…
Place Name Directional, this was the main route between Mitcham and the village of Beddington. This street takes its name…