Chelsham

Chelsham

Chelsham. Marks the southernmostend of 'Greater Croydon', and the beginning of the opencountryside of the Surrey downs. Does the relative isolation of the church suggest a settlement, which was depopulated in the Middle Ages.

The parishchurch of St. Leonard.

The Bull Inn

St.Christopher’s Church. Pretty weatherboarded mission church. 1907 and 1967 extension

Chelsham Road

Formerly Mill Lane and contains Mill House. The post mill which stood 60 yards to the south of its house was burnt down about 1840. Rocque's map indicates that it dated back to at least 1762.

Group of cottages

16th-century Chelsham Place

Beadle's Mill

Coal post. North side 50 years west of Chelsham Road – this is the one that was in Limpsfield Road

Limpsfield Road

Part of the road was made up with concrete – one of the first roads to be doneso.

Chesham LT Bus Garage. Chelsham bus station was demolished a year or two before 1993.

Coal Tax Post On west side of Chelsham Road at junction with Limpsfield Road. Adjacent to site of the former bus station and re-sited in 1994. The post is near but not on parish boundary and is rusty and the inscription is spoiled.

Council depot on the site of a pond provided for clean drinking water.

Brickfields still at work early 20th

Sunny Banks

Coal Tax Post.On the north east side at road junction with Chelsham Road. It is a rusty post, on the parish boundary, with a damaged inscription. The inscription on the base (normally earthed over) reads: REGENTS CANAL IRON WORKS, HENRY CRISSELL, 1861, LONDON. The post was slightly repositioned when work on the road junction occurred.