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List of Best Things to do in Croydon , England
Croydon Airport Visitor Centre
Museum Of Croydon
Wandle Park
Croydon Minster
Kelsey Park
Millwall Football Club Stadium
Littleheath Woods
Millers Pond
Croham Hurst Woods
Crystal Palace Park
Places to see in ( Croydon - UK )
Places to see in ( Croydon - UK )
Croydon is a large town in south London, England, 9.5 miles south of Charing Cross. The principal settlement in the London Borough of Croydon, Croydon is one of the largest commercial districts outside Central London, with an extensive shopping district and night-time economy.
Croydon expanded in the Middle Ages as a market town and a centre for charcoal production, leather tanning and brewing. The Surrey Iron Railway from Croydon to Wandsworth opened in 1803 and was the world's first public railway. Later nineteenth century railway building facilitated Croydon's growth as a commuter town for London. By the early 20th century, Croydon was an important industrial area, known for car manufacture, metal working and Croydon Airport. In the mid 20th century these sectors were replaced by retailing and the service economy, brought about by massive redevelopment which saw the rise of office blocks and the Whitgift Centre, the largest shopping centre in London until 2008. Croydon was amalgamated into Greater London in 1965.
Croydon lies on a transport corridor between central London and the south coast of England, to the north of two gaps in the North Downs, one followed by the A23 Brighton Road through Purley and Merstham and the main railway line and the other by the A22 from Purley to the M25 Godstone interchange. Road traffic is diverted away from a largely pedestrianised town centre, mostly consisting of the North End. East Croydon is a major hub of the national railway transport system, with frequent fast services to central London, Brighton and the south coast. The town is unique in Greater London for its Tramlink light rail transport system.
Alot to see in ( Croydon - UK ) such as :
Museum of Croydon
Croydon Clocktower
Queen's Gardens
Addington Hills
Down House
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Selhurst Park
Wandle Park
Battle of Britain Monument, London
Farthing Downs
South Norwood Country Park
Lloyd Park
High Elms Country Park
Croydon Road Recreation Ground
Mitcham Common
Ravensbury Park
Honeywood Museum
Grangewood Park
Beddington Park
Ashburton Park
Happy Valley Park
GO Zorbing London
Lavender Park
Wilderness Island
Figges Marsh
Grove Park
Westow Park
Poulter Park
Bramley Bank
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Places to see in ( Leamington Spa - UK )
Places to see in ( Leamington Spa - UK )
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa, Leamington, or simply Leam to locals is a spa town in Warwickshire, England. Following the popularisation of the medicinal qualities of Leamington Spa water in the eighteenth century, in the nineteenth century the town experienced one of the most rapid expansions in England. Leamington Spa is named after the River Leam which flows through the town.
Leamington Spa contains especially fine ensembles of Regency architecture, particularly in parts of the Parade, Clarendon Square and Lansdowne Circus. The town of Leamington Spa comprises six electoral wards: Brunswick, Milverton, Manor, Crown, Clarendon and Willes.
Leamington is divided by the River Leam running east to west, which is susceptible to flooding in extreme weather, with especially heavy floods in 1998 and 2007. The town of Leamington Spa has several parks and gardens, including the Jephson Gardens, close to the Royal Pump Rooms and next to the River Leam.
The town has enveloped the older village of Lillington. Other suburbs include New Milverton, Campion Hills, and Sydenham to the southeast. The large village of Whitnash is contiguous with the town to the south and is often considered as a suburb.
From Leamington's centre it is 3 miles (5 km) to the M40 motorway which links it to Birmingham and London. Leamington Spa railway station is served by the Chiltern Main Line, which links London (Marylebone) to Birmingham (Snow Hill) and onwards to Kidderminster. Leamington's nearest international airport is Birmingham Airport. A general aviation airport and former tourist charter hub.
Alot to see in ( Leamington Spa - UK ) such as :
Jephson Gardens
Royal Pump Rooms
St John's House Museum, Warwick
British Motor Museum
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
Foundry Wood
(Reputed) Centre of England
Victoria Park
Welches Meadow
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London Districts: Croydon
This episode traverses the district of 'Croydon' through a visual tour with some light history as a commentary and some area recommendations.
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Croydon is in the London Borough of Croydon spread across both London and Surrey. It's a large town directly to the south of central London in the midst of Bromley, Thornton Heath, Mitcham and Carshalton.
Originally a mediaeval market town, Croydon was the go-to place for the valuable Saffron spice and its place name is believed to be derived from this.
Croydon boasts a large shopping complex in the shape of the Centrale and the Whitgift Centre which was the largest shopping centre in London until 2008.
This Greater London town is distinctive for its TfL Tramlink light rail transport system. Croydon's version of the DLR. It began operating in 2000 as the first London tram system since 1952. All 17 miles of it are now included on the London Tube Map.
The council seems to have given tacit approval of an arts quarter over the last few years. Dozens of striking murals are emerging on walls, shutters and fences around the town centre as part of the 2015 Croydon Mural Project which has produced over 100 murals to date.
Croydon College is a further education college established in 1868 offering BTEC Diplomas, NVQs, A levels and entry level courses. For the last few years, it has maintained an Ofsted rating of 'good'. The BRIT School for performing arts and technology also lives in Croydon and has birthed a slew of notable actors and musicians.
Recently, the popular food, retail and club outlet, Boxpark, forged out of shipping containers, opened a venue in East Croydon. It has revitalised the night life and trendy image among younger punters.
The town is expected to see further changes through its Vision 2020 urban planning initiative which aims on promoting Croydon as a hub of living, retailing, culture and business with £3.5 billion committed to development projects.
The Shirley Windmill has had its fair share of life tribulations. Its been abandoned, set on fire, replaced, eaten by birds, struck by lightning, had limbs broken off and was listed for sale in the paper as an April fool's joke by school pupils in 1971.
In 1803, Croydon opened the worlds first public railway. The Surrey Iron Railway ran from Croydon to Wandsworth to facilitate the area into becoming a growing commuter town.
Today, East Croydon station is one of the U.K.’s busiest non-terminal train stations. Additionally, the large town has a West and South Croydon station but is absent of a North Croydon. There is an express train to Gatwick airport; just one replacement of the now defunct Croydon international airport, which was also the U.K.’s first. It introduced a control tower along with air-traffic control to the world after the first world war.
Neighbouring the station is the iconic 50p building, or as it is properly known, number One Croydon. Completed in 1970, it has 27 multi angular storeys stacked up to a height of 269 feet.
Saffron Square tower is currently Croydon's tallest building at 440 feet and recently won a unique architectural prize for the ugliest building in the UK. A new skyscraper is set to be built at nearly 800 feet. This will exceed the height of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf to become the U.K.’s second tallest building behind The Shard and the highest residential block.
The Fairfield halls arts, entertainment and conference centre opened in 1962. It has hosted The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Queen, Pink Floyd and was a setting in the Da Vinci Code film.
Aside from the modern development, Croydon preserves several older structures like the Croydon minster, Addington Palace to the south and Croydon Palace; traditionally the summer residence of the arch bishop of Canterbury for over 500 years.
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The Bridge to Nowhere Colliers Wood
Not one of the major attractions to visit in London I must admit. The Bridge to Nowhere is still a interesting site to visit if you have the time maybe.
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London Districts: Grove Park
This next episode travels over to the south east London district of 'Grove Park' to show you how it looks today and how it came to be today. London Districts puts the lesser known areas of London in the spotlight.
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Grove Park is a quiet district taking its name from Grove Farm, an area of land which was located immediately opposite the front of Grove Park Library. The train station was the catalyst of the area's birth in the 1870s.
St Augustine's Church is a Church of England. Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a Grove Park resident and ministered here in the first half of the seventies.
Baring Road (formerly Bromley Road) is the spine of Grove Park from which everything branches off. The set-up of the GPCG or Grove Park Community Group there in 1972 is a big reason why the district still exists in its current form today.
Railway Children Walk is a 200-metre heritage trail commemorating the world famous 1906 children's novel 'The Railway Children' by E.Nesbit. The back of Edith Nesbit's house on Baring Road overlooked the railway line and is partially referenced by name in the story. Part of her old garden now forms the Grove Park Nature Reserve established in 1984.
The area was mostly woodland before they cut down and burned the trees for charcoal in the 18th century. This accounts for the section name Burnt Ash.
Brick maker and Victorian builder John Pound was born in Blackheath in 1827 was responsible for much of the late 19th century development of Grove Park including The Baring Hall Hotel & Pub previously threatened by demolition after a fire inside it in 2000.
Desmond Tutu lived in Chinbrook Road from 1972-
1975 before he was later elevated to the world stage during the 1980s as a South African activist and opponent of apartheid. Lewisham Council made him an Honorary Freeman of the Borough in 1990.
When an opera singer discovered Desmond Tutu used to live in her house, she invited him back in 2016 to create a peace garden in Chinbrook Meadows 150 yards away in honour of his work in peace and reconciliation.
Chinbrook Meadows was a dairy farm before it became a public park in 1937. It hosts the annual Grove Park Carnival & Chinbrook Dog Show.
Sixty years ago the River Quaggy here was channelized into ugly concrete culverts just to alleviate flooding. They pulled all of this up at the turn of the century to give it a more open and naturally meandering appearance with wooden bridges going across it; a lot more pleasant to attract wildlife and the public back to the area. Shortly afterwards, Chinbrook won the Green Flag Award for best UK park, two years in a row.
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE FRGS (/ˈʃækəltən/; 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo-Irishfamily moved to Sydenham in suburban London when he was ten. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds. Determined to make amends for this perceived personal failure, he returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909, he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88° 23' S, 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles, 180 km) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Ernest Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.
After the race to the South Pole ended in December 1911 with Roald Amundsen's conquest, Ernest Shackleton turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying: the crossing of the continent from sea to sea, via the pole. To this end he made preparations for what became the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17. Disaster struck this expedition when its ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and was slowly crushed before the shore parties could be landed. There followed a sequence of exploits, and an ultimate escape with no loss of human life, that would eventually assure Ernest Shackleton's heroic status, although this was not immediately evident. In 1921, he returned to the Antarctic with the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, intending to carry out a programme of scientific and survey activities. Before the expedition could begin this work, Ernest Shackleton died of a heart attack while his ship, Quest, was moored in South Georgia. At his wife's request he was buried there.
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London things to see and do in Winter / February Favourites
Its Winter here in London and this is some of my favourite things to do and places to visit this February. First is a visit to London's renowned flower market, Columbia Road flower market.
Also visiting London's Chinatown for Chinese New year.
My perfect stew recipe
And a visit to Crystal Palace park. A walk around the ruins and remains of the Crystal Palace. And finally a visit to the pub.