Selsdon
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Selsdon is a place in 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 Selsdon Park Hotel, the venue of the 1970 Conservative Selsdon Group, which occasioned the phrase Selsdon Man.
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[edit] 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 January 2007 the prominent Selsdon Clock was installed on the Selsdon Triangle on the site of a public toilet.
[edit] Nearest places
[edit] Nearest railway stations
- Sanderstead railway station
- South Croydon railway station
- Gravel Hill tram stop
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- 66 ( Selsdon ) Squadron Air Training Corps - Uniformed youth organisation for boy and girls aged 13 upwards in Selsdon, Croydon and local area.
- [http://www.founditguide.co.uk Local Guide covering Selsdon and Ballards}
