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Park, Croydon/Bromley
Spring Park
A primarily interwar settlement bordered by Monks Orchard to the north, West
Wickham to the east, Addington to the south and Shirley to the west

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Sutton House
A 16th-century courtier’s
This was a patch of inferior farmland until it was enhanced in the first half of the 19th century country home in Homerton
(Hackney)
by the addition of new roads and an accompanying change of identity from Cold Harbour to
Spring Park (an existing local name) as part of a plan to encourage the building of mansions in
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A wealthy MP, Sir John Temple Leader (who later started a sizeable British colony near Florence powered pumping station’
in outer SW London
in Italy), bought Spring Park in the mid-1830s and engaged the innovative Hewitt Davis as
tenant farmer. By improving the soil and drainage, Davis transformed the land from rough
heathland into a model farm. Agricultural associations organised trips here to learn from his Myddelton House Gardens
‘Holy ground for plantsmen’
achievements.
(and plantswomen) in the
far north of London
Spring Park House stood on the present-day Farm Drive, at first in isolation but gradually
encroached upon by lesser properties. Suburban development started in the 1920s and acceler-
ated in the 1930s, absorbing the hamlet of Starve Acre on the Addington Palace estate. Dulwich Picture Gallery
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After the Second World War council housing filled the remaining gaps, with only the municipal works by Rembrandt,
open spaces escaping development. Rubens, etc.

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Ham House
A National Trust stately
home in a very attractive
village

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Shown in the photograph above, All Saints church is a distinctive structure built in 1956 by the
architectural partnership Curtis Green, Son and Lloyd. It is a grade II listed building.

Following what Ofsted called “a turbulent period of change”, Spring Park primary school
became Forest Academy in 2013. In 2020 the school joined Inspire Partnership, a small multi-
academy trust. Ofsted rated Forest Academy ‘Good’ following an inspection in February 2022.

The City of London cares for the heathland and coppiced woods of Spring Park, at the bottom
right corner of the map below.

Smaller clumps of the woodland also survive around Miller’s Pond and north of Links View
Road, which was named for a former golf course laid out in 1922 on land now covered by the
Shrublands estate. Links View Road (seen across Bridle Road) is shown in the photograph at the
top of the article.
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Many Shirley and West Wickham telephone numbers include the digits “777” because this was
the numeric equivalent of the first three letters of SPRing Park.

Postcode areas: Croydon CR0 and West Wickham BR4

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* The picture of Links View Road at the top of this page is adapted from an original photograph, copyright Christopher
Hilton, and the picture of All Saints church, Bridle Road, is slightly modiFed from an original photograph, copyright John
Salmon, both at Geograph Britain and Ireland, made available under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Licence. Any
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