Croydon, England

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Croydon is a settlement in England

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Croydon within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Croydon in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Croydon, parl. and mun. bor., market town, and par., Surrey -- par. and bor., 9001 ac., pop. 78,953; 3 Banks, 12 newspapers. Market-days, Thursday and Saturday. C. is 10 miles S. of London Bridge, but forms practically a S. suburb of the metropolis, and contains numerous handsome villas of London merchants. It has 6 stations -- Addiscombe Road, Central, East, New, South, West -- connecting the town with the main lines and branches of the London, Brighton, and South Coast and South-Eastern Railways. The weekly corn and cattle markets constitute the chief business of the town. There are no mfrs. C. is a place of great antiquity. It has many traces of the Romans. The archiepiscopal palace, of which the chapel and hall still remain, is supposed to have been founded by Lanfranc (1005-1089); it was the occasional residence of his successors until 1757. C. is the capital of E. Surrey, and assizes are held alternately there and at Guildford. It was made a mun. bor. in 1883, and a parl. bor. in 1885; it returns 1 member.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

East Croydon, ry. sta. at Croydon, E. Surrey.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

West Croydon, ry. sta., Surrey, at Croydon.

Croydon in the Domesday Book

A village in Wallington hundred, in the county of Surrey.

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