Addington Palace is a Palladian-style mansion between Addington Village and Shirley, in the London Borough of Croydon. Six archbishops lived there between 1807 and 1898, when it was sold. Between 1953 and 1996 it was the home of the Royal School of Church Music. It is now a conference and banqueting venue. Perfect for Croydon franchise areas, sales territories, logistics, distribution & marketing across the CR Postcode Area! Croydon has been at the centre of the development of the dubstep genre, a relatively recent musical development that traces its roots from Jamaican dub music, UK Garage and drum and bass. Artists such as Benga and Skream, who honed their production and DJing skills whilst working at the now defunct Big Apple Records on Surrey Street, [102] along with Norwood's Digital Mystikz, DJ Chef, Timi Korus and Thornton Heath's Plastician, form the core roster of dubstep DJs and producers. Moreover, UK rappers and grime artists Stormzy, Krept and Konan, Nadia Rose and Section Boyz all hail from or can trace their roots to the London Borough of Croydon.

Public art [ edit ] One of several new murals to have appeared in Croydon town centre in recent years [ when?] In Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons (written c.1803–1805), the heroine, Emma Watson, has a brother and sister-in-law who live in Croydon, and who urge her to join them for an extended visit. Another sister, Elizabeth, encourages the idea, commenting "there is always something lively going on at Croydon". It would appear that the plot was intended to continue with Emma moving to Croydon. [96] [97] Music [ edit ]The Parish Church (now Croydon Minster) is a Perpendicular-style church, which was remodelled in 1849 but destroyed in a great fire in 1867, after which only the tower, south porch, and outer walls remained. A new church was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, one of the greatest architects of the Victorian age, and opened in 1870. His design loosely followed the previous layout, with knapped flint facing and many of the original features, including several tombs. Croydon Parish Church is the burial place of six Archbishops of Canterbury: John Whitgift, Edmund Grindal, Gilbert Sheldon, William Wake, John Potter and Thomas Herring. Historically part of the Diocese of Canterbury, Croydon is now in the Diocese of Southwark. In addition to the suffragan Bishop of Croydon, the Vicar of Croydon is a preferment. [ citation needed] The Grade I listed " Whitgift Hospital" almshouses in the centre of Croydon The Grade II listed West Croydon Baptist Church The Grade I listed Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels, West Croydon Continuing Croydon's tradition of dubstep record shops, are Reggaemasters, which opened in 2004 on Drummond Road and moved to Frith Road in 2019, [105] and Addiscombe's DnR Vinyl, which cites Big Apple Records as its main inspiration. [106] Ten Pin Records opened in Purley in 2022. [107] Prescott denies Labour loans link". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 26 March 2006 . Retrieved 2 February 2019.

Past civic mayors and freemen and freedoms granted by the borough". Croydon.gov.uk. 2023 . Retrieved 28 January 2023.Rachel Khoo (1980–), cook, editor-in-chief of online lifestyle magazine Khoollect, with her own BBC series Nightingale, Anne (2020). Hey hi hello. London. ISBN 978-1-4746-1668-3. OCLC 1158144145. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Lionel Atwill, 61, Noted Actor, Dies. Veteran of Stage and Screen Made London Debut in 1904". The New York Times. 23 April 1946. The London Borough of Croydon has a Labour-controlled council with 41 Labour councillors and 29 Conservative councillors elected on 3 May 2018. [ Corrected Aug 2020]

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The town lies on the line of the Roman road from London to Portslade, and there is some archaeological evidence for small-scale Roman settlement in the area: there may have been a mansio (staging-post) here. [10] [11] [12] [13] Later, in the 5th to 7th centuries, a large pagan Saxon cemetery was situated on what is now Park Lane, although the extent of any associated settlement is unknown. [14] [15] Jon Benjamin (1964–), Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, born and grew up in Croydon Mike Leeder, Hong Kong based Casting Director and Film Producer, born and raised in Croydon. Worked at Allders of Croydon, before relocating to Hong Kong in 1989. [ citation needed] TfL announces plans to take over Tramlink services". 17 March 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008 . Retrieved 24 May 2008.London Borough of Croydon map of wards" (PDF). Croydon Council. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2008 . Retrieved 18 July 2008. The area of the CR2 postcode district is 6.37 square miles which is 16.50 square kilometres or 4,076.31 acres. Croydon lies on a transport corridor between central London and the south coast of England, to the north of two high gaps in the North Downs, one taken by the A23 Brighton Road and the main railway line through Purley and Merstham 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 North End. East Croydon railway station is a hub of the national railway system, with frequent fast services to central London, Brighton and the south coast. The town is also at the centre of the only tramway system in southern England. Streatham-Croydon RFC, founded in 1871, is one of Greater London's oldest extant rugby union clubs, playing just north of the town centre at Frant Road in Thornton Heath. Croydon has many tall buildings such as the former Nestlé Tower (St George's House). The London Borough of Croydon's strategic planning committee in February 2013 gave the go-ahead to property fund manager Legal and General Property's plans to convert the empty 24-storey St George's House office building, occupied by Nestlé until September 2012, into 288 flats. [40]