Selsdon

Selsdon

infobox UK place
country = England
map_type = Greater London
region= London
population=
official_name= Selsdon
latitude= 51.3453
longitude= -0.0535
os_grid_reference= TQ355625
london_borough= Croydon
post_town= SOUTH CROYDON
postcode_area= CR
postcode_district= CR2
dial_code= 020
constituency_westminster= Croydon South

Selsdon is an area located in the southern suburbs of the London Borough of Croydon. The suburb was developed during the inter-war period during the 1920s and 1930s, and is remarkable for its many Art Deco houses. It is also well-known for the "Selsdon Park Hotel", the venue of the 1970 Conservative Selsdon Group, which occasioned the phrase "Selsdon Man". [ [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1811867 Selsdon Man@Everything2.com (About Selsdon Man) ] ] [ [http://www.selsdongroup.co.uk/aboutus.htm About Us (about the Selsdon Group ] ]

History

One side of the residential area of Selsdon is bordered by Selsdon Wood, and the whole area used to be part of Selsdon Park Estate, once well known as hunting and shooting grounds in the area. In the early 1920s the Estate was broken up and divided into smallholdings

After concerns were raised about the rapid development of the village a committee was formed to ensure that an area of 200 acres would be set aside and saved for a nature reserve and bird sanctuary which was opened to the public in 1936 and given to the National Trust after Coulsdon and Purley District Council and the Corporation of Croydon agreed to manage it jointly. Selsdon Wood now consists of five large meadows surrounded by extensive woodland and ancient hedges and it still retains the character of a historical woodland. In the second meadow of the Selsdon Wood area there is a bomb crater, and another in Selsdon recreation ground just inside the woods which are closed off. Much wildlife may be found in the wooded areas of Selsdon such as deer, and more recently parakeets. [ [http://selsdon.com/ Selsdon - Selsdon.com ] ]

In January 2007 the prominent Selsdon Clock, in rustic style with a brushwood motif round its face, was installed on the Selsdon Triangle, on the plinth of a former public toilet, in front of the Selsdon Library and Sainsbury's Supermarket.

Nearest places

*Sanderstead
*South Croydon
*Farleigh
*Warlingham
*Forestdale
*Addington

Nearest railway stations

*Sanderstead railway station
*South Croydon railway station
*Gravel Hill tram stop
*Selsdon railway station (closed in 1983)

ee also

*John Ruskin College
* [http://www.founditguide.co.uk/ Found It Guide covering Sanderstead, Selsdon and Ballards]

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