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Croydon
Bensham Lane
Old route. Preserves the name of the old manor of ‘Bencheshom’ 12th century, ‘Bennechisham’ 1372, ‘Bensom’ 1721, that is 'homestead or enclosure of a man called Bynic", from an Old English personal name with either ‘ham’ or ‘hamm’.
Cottages
Gravel pits
228 Victoria Cross pub
Brigstock Road
Gravel pits
Brigstock pub
19 Railway Telegraph pub
129 Brigstock Manor
Broad Green
Name of hamlet, owned by the Carews. Name dates to 16th. Settlement on the edge of Croydon Common. Area of common land. Broad Green and Broad Green House were unenclosed area. Marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1819, earlier ‘Brodegrene’ 1543, ‘Broodegreene’ 1573, self-explanatory, "the broad village green', from Middle English ‘brode’ and ‘grene’.
London Electric Hall
Savoy
Broad Green House. Built 1807, later survived as a school.
Star Hotel. Built on the site of an old beer shop as the area ‘improved’.
Buller Road
Campbell Road/ London Road
West Croydon United Reform church Croydon's most ambitious spire 1886 Expensive carillon. By Church, 1886, Gothic, Early English.
Canterbury Road
Library built 1998
Chatfield Road
Built on the grounds of Broad Green House
Chelsham Road
Dennett Road
Elmwood Road
Built on the site of Croydon Lodge
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Garnet Road
Jarvis Road
Kidderminster Road
Kimberley Road
Bensham Lodge
Kitchener Road
Knighton Close
Lawrence Road
Workhouse of 1865. Rest destroyed in Second World War.
North Park in space with St. Saviour's Road
Lodges corner of St.James's Road
School 1892
Vestry Hall 1892
London Road
Junction with Thornton Road, gibbet
Brigstock House
Top Rank Suite
City House, 1963. Built by London Merchant Securities and leased to Phillips as their UK HQ. City Homes bought it for conversion to flats 2006.
185 Stokes Fountains
530 Devonshire Arms pub
745 Horseshoe pub.
759 Wheatsheaf Pub, eighteenth century
774 Plough and Harrow pub
Congregational Church
Thornton Heath Bus Garage
Mayday Hospital Board of Guardians Hospital 1881-5. Unexploded bomb in the grounds. later extensions.
Royal Parade. Replaced a line of trees. Imposing shops on part of the site of Broad Green Place.
Sainsbury
Rising Sun
British restaurant. Purpose built building. Backs onto the bus garage.
Thomas Tilling bus garage, 1915
Milner Road
Montague Road
Built on the grounds of Broad Green House
Natal Road
Nova Road
Built on the site of Broad Green Place.
Rayleigh Rise
St.Saviour's Road
St.Saviour's urban renewal, Borough Architects Department. Quite a noticeable group in the poorer end of Victorian Croydon: church of 1867 by A. R. Mullins, with additions of 1880, polychrome brick, lancet style, with tower and spire. –
Cottages
Thornton Road
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