Spring Park, Croydon

Ceremonial countyGreater LondonRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townCroydonPostcode districtCR0Dialling code020PoliceMetropolitanFireLondonAmbulanceLondon London Assembly 51°22′33″N 0°01′52″W / 51.375745°N 0.031049°W / 51.375745; -0.031049

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.^[1]: 467

History

The area was historically known as Cold Harbour.^[1]: 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.^[1]: 467 Large scale residential building began in the 1920s–1930s.^[1]: 467 The Shrublands council estate was constructed after the Second World War on compulsorily purchased land from the golf course.^[1]: 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.^[2]

Notable residents

• Joshua Buatsi - boxer, grew up on the Shrublands estate.^[3]

Gallery

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  The Apple Tree pub, with Broom Road shops
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  All Saints Church on Bridle Road was built in 1955-6 by William Curtis Green and is a Grade II listed building.^[4]
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  Clearing in the woods that border the Shrublands estate
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  Millers Pond, originally part of Spring Park Farm

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