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Old Town is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Croydon, lying immediately to the west of Croydon town centre. It is centred on Croydon Minster and the Old Palace, and is the location of the original early medieval settlement of Croydon. As defined for modern planning purposes, the neighbourhood includes Surrey Street Market to the east ...
The main town centre shopping areas are on the North End precinct, in the Whitgift Centre, Centrale and St George's Walk. Department stores in Croydon town centre include House of Fraser, Marks and Spencer, Allders, Debenhams and T.K. Maxx. Croydon's main market is Surrey Street Market, which has a royal charter dating back to 1276.
The earliest detailed map of Croydon, drawn by the 18-year-old Jean-Baptiste Say in 1785. [5] The early settlement of Old Town, including the parish church (marked B) lies to the west; while the triangular medieval marketplace, probably associated with Archbishop Kilwardby's market charter of 1276, is clearly visible further east, although by this date it has been infilled with buildings.
The town has since witnessed a boom in the construction of high rise apartments, such as IYLO and Altitude 25, a former brownfield site. For 38 years, the tallest building in Croydon was the No. 1 Croydon (formerly the NLA Tower), a high-rise office block, which was completed in 1970, until 2009, when Altitude 25, a residential high-rise ...
Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society; Croydon Town Hall; Croydon University Hospital; Fairfield Halls; Purley Council Offices; St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood; Taberner House; Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom London Croydon; Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom London Croydon/doc
View towards Central Croydon from Pitlake Bridge. The London Borough of Croydon has a wide variety of buildings mainly from post-war through to modern. Much of the modern architecture in the borough is centred on the commercial centre of the town, with much of the Victorian designs spread out on both the northern and southern corridors of the borough.
List of public art in the London Borough of Croydon; Croydon Flyover; Croydon Law Courts; Croydon Mosque; Croydon Sports Arena; Croydon Town Hall; Croydon transmitting station; Croydon University Hospital
The Whitgift Centre is a large shopping centre in the town centre of Croydon, opening in stages between 1968 and 1970. [1] The centre comprises 1,302,444 sq ft (121,001 m 2 ) of retail space, and was the largest covered shopping development in Greater London until the opening of Westfield London at White City in 2008.