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Spring Park, Croydon

{{redirect|Shrublands|the habitat type|Shrubland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2015}}

{{infobox UK place

| country = England

| map_type = Greater London

| region = London

| population =

| official_name = Spring Park

| london_borough = Bromley

| coordinates = {{coord|51.375745|-0.031049|display=inline,title}}

| post_town = CROYDON

| postcode_district = CR0

| postcode_area = CR

| dial_code = 020

| london_borough1 = Croydon

| constituency_westminster = Croydon East

| constituency_westminster1 = Beckenham and Penge

}}

Spring Park is a small area in London, England. It is within the London Borough of Bromley and the London Borough of Croydon, straddling the traditional Kent-Surrey border along The Beck. Spring Park is located north of Addington, west of West Wickham and south of Monks Orchard and Shirley.{{cite book |last1=Willey |first1=Russ |title=London gazetteer |date=2007 |publisher=Edinburgh : Chambers |isbn=978-0-550-10326-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/londongazetteer0000will/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=7 March 2024}}{{rp|467}}

History

The area was historically known as Cold Harbour.{{r|Willey|p=467}} Settlement began in the area in the 1830s at the instigation of the MP John Temple Leader, who employed the agricultural innovator Hewitt Davis to turn what was barren heathland into productive farmland.{{r|Willey|p=467}} Large scale residential building began in the 1920sā€“1930s.{{r|Willey|p=467}} The Shrublands council estate was constructed after the Second World War on compulsorily purchased land from the golf course.{{r|Willey|p=441}}

The area contains a small row of shops at the junction of Bridle Road and Broom Road. The Goat pub, which closed in 2017 following an attack on a local asylum seeker, re-opened in 2019 as The Apple Tree.{{cite news |title=The Goat pub in Shirley is reopening very soon under a new name |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/goat-pub-shirley-reopening-very-16924975 |publisher=MyLondon|date=16 September 2019|accessdate=12 August 2020}}

Notable residents

  • Joshua Buatsi ā€“ boxer, grew up on the Shrublands estate.{{cite news |title=Rio 2016: Croydon boxer Joshua Buatsi guaranteed at least a bronze medal |url=https://shakinghands.co.uk/news/20160815-joshua-buatsi-medal/ |publisher=MyLondon|date=15 August 2016|accessdate=19 August 2020}}

Gallery

File:Apple_Tree_pub,_Spring_Park.jpg|The Apple Tree pub, with Broom Road shops

File:All Saints church, Spring Park, Shirley, Croydon - geograph.org.uk - 34331.jpg|All Saints Church on Bridle Road was built in 1955ā€“6 by William Curtis Green and is a Grade II listed building.{{NHLE|num= 1376050|desc=Church of All Saints|accessdate=31 January 2020}}

File:Wood_clearing,_Spring_Park.jpg|Clearing in the woods that border the Shrublands estate

File:Millers_Pond,_Spring_Park.jpg|Millers Pond, originally part of Spring Park Farm

References

{{Reflist}}{{LB Bromley}}{{LB Croydon}}

Category:Areas of London

Category:Districts of the London Borough of Croydon

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