Hamsley Green

 

Boundary London/Surrey/Croydon

The boundary follows the curving edge of Beeches Shaw

The boundary comes west along the bottom edge of Mossyhill Shaw and turns south along the edge and continues

 

Beech Way

Horseshoe Clump

Valley View

 

Cherry Tree Green

Council Estate 1948.  big green

 

Kings Wood

Marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1816, earlier ‘Kinges Woodes’ 1595, so named from the family of William Kyng 1332. However it was earlier called Sanderstead Wood.

Ancient woodland South of Selsdon Park owned by the local council.  Linear earthworks run across the north of the site and may be the site of an ancient farmstead. The coppiced wood was used for game shoots and a grid of rides and four conifers were planted as markers at each crossing in the 19th. The wood was bombed in the Second World War and the debris remained there for a long time. 

Kingswood Kennels – includes the original keeper’s cottage, and the dogs here belong to Croydon Council’s security department.

Romano British settlement site on the northern boundary, a small farmstead. Enclosed by a semi-circular earthwork.  Iron Age and later track ways lead to the site on ancient trade routes.

Cemetery from the 1st next to the settlement site.

Dene holes –over 40 in the wood but all of them are filled.

 

Kingswood

Kingswood Lodge

Mossy Hill Shaw

Pinewood Cottage

Cottage in the Field

 

Ryefield Road

Wells Shaw

Kingswood Shaw

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