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The earliest surviving mention of the wood dates from assize records in 1272, and it was known to be owned by the Whitehorse family during the reign of King Edward III. When Oliver Cromwell seized it from the Archbishop of Canterbury it was measured to cover 830 acres (3.4 km 2 ), but held only 9,200 oaken pollards.
The Colonnades Leisure Park or Croydon Colonnades is an out-of-town leisure park located in the Purley Way retail and industrial district of the London Borough of Croydon, South London. It opened in the late 1990s on the former site of the Croydon Water Palace , an indoor water park complex that operated from 1990 to 1996.
Lloyd Park (also known as Lloyd Country Park) is a 114 acres (46 ha) park on the outskirts of central Croydon, Greater London, managed by the London Borough of Croydon.It is bordered by Coombe Road to the south and Lloyd Park Avenue to the west.
The Hordern family "created many celebrated gardens around their residences". Anthony ('Tertius') Hordern III's Shubra Hall is described by Tanner and Britton in their entry on the family's gardens in The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens as'a high-Victorian villa on a landscaped hilltop (now Presbyterian Ladies' College) at Croydon'.
The London Borough of Croydon (pronunciation ⓘ) is a borough in South London, part of Outer London.It covers an area of 87 km 2 (33.6 sq mi) and has a population of 397,714 [1], making it the most populous London borough.
Open space in the rest of the region is dominated by the remaining three Royal Parks and many other parks and open spaces of a range of sizes, run mainly by the local London boroughs, although other owners include the National Trust and the City of London Corporation.
Croydon High School is an independent (fee paying) girls' school in Selsdon, and a member of the Girls' Day School Trust. [180] Royal Russell School is a co-educational independent (fee paying) boarding and day school in South Croydon and is a member of the Headmasters' Conference. [181] Croydon is also home to three single-sex Catholic state ...
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.