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Penge (/ p ɛ n dʒ /) is a suburb ... Barbara Strang (1925–1982), an English language scholar was born here in 1925. Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe (1826–1876 ...
Penge was a civil parish and a local government district located to the southeast of London, England. It included the settlements of Penge , Anerley and part of Crystal Palace . It was part of the London postal district , Metropolitan Police District and, from 1933, the London Passenger Transport Area .
Penge Common was an area of north east Surrey and north west Kent which now forms part of London, England; covering most of Penge, all of Anerley, and parts of surrounding suburbs including South Norwood. [1] It abutted the Great North Wood and John Rocque's 1745 map of London and its environs showed that Penge Common now included part of that ...
The Crooked Billet Ground also hosted cricket with Penge United playing matches there between 1856-58. [12] [13] [14] Sydenham Albion Cricket Club was using the field as their home ground in 1865. After the opening match of their season, "a very excellent lunch was provided on the ground by Mr Matthews, of the Crooked Billet Tavern, Penge." [15]
Beckenham and Penge is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested in the 2024 general election .
Saint John the Evangelist is the Church of England parish church of Penge (now in the London Borough of Bromley), in the Diocese of Rochester, Greater London. At the time of its erection, Penge was in Surrey and had been an exclave of Battersea. It is located on Penge High Street, and was erected 1847 to designs of architects Edwin Nash & J. N ...
Harriet Staunton (née Richardson) died in a Penge lodging house on 13 April, five days after her one-year-old child, Thomas Staunton, died of malnutrition at Guy's Hospital. In September of the same year, Harriet's husband Louis Staunton was convicted of wilful murder at the Old Bailey together with his partner Alice Rhodes, his brother ...
Penge Congregational Church is a Congregational church in Penge in the London Borough of Bromley located on Penge High Street. It is organised under Congregational principles for all who believe in Jesus and is run under a basis of fellowship that includes all members of the church.