Warlingham

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Warlingham

Coordinates: 51.30949° N 0.05736° E
OS grid reference	TQ355585
District	Tandridge
Shire county	Surrey
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WARLINGHAM
Postcode district	CR6
Dial code	01883
Police	Surrey
Fire	Surrey
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	East Surrey
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Surrey

Warlingham is a large village on the south-eastern boundary of London, England, just across the border in Tandridge district, east Surrey. Warlingham is centered on a triangular village green, home to most of the village's commercial activities. The nearest town to Warlingham is Caterham.

Most of Warlingham's populace works in Croydon or central London, making Warlingham part of the London commuter belt.

1 Shopping
2 Transport
3 Education
4 Nearest places
5 Nearby stations
6 External links

[edit] Shopping

Apart from the large Sainbury's store near Farleigh and Chelsham Common, there are few useful shops in Warlingham. Around the triangular Green, there is a small Somerfield store, a Lloyd's Pharmacy, a newsagent and an art gallery. There used to be an exprensive dress store, a jeweler and a Gift shop.

[edit] Transport

Warlingham has good transport links with Croydon, but not such good links with nearby Caterham. The Transport for London 403 route goes from Croydon to the Sainbury's store via Sanderstead and runs every 12 minutes. It is operated by Arriva London. Southdown PSV route 409 also goes to Croydon, but it goes via Selsdon. It also goes to East Grinstead (although some journeys only go as far as Godstone) via Whyteleafe and Caterham. Southdown PSV also operate route 411 to Redhill which goes via Whyteleafe, Caterham and Godstone. Certain journeys also go to Tatsfield. Both routes also serve Greatpark housing estate in Chelsham Common. on schooldays, Selkent operate a route to Saint Bede's school in Redhill and Southdown PSV operate route 657 to Reigate College. The local station is about a mile from Warlingham green and is called Upper Warlingham railway station, which has fast Southern services to London Victoria and London Bridge as well as East Grinstead. Close to Upper Warlingham is Whyteleafe railway station which has slower trains to London and Caterham departing every quarter of an hour.

[edit] Education

There are a few schools in Warlingham. Warlingham School is closer to Hamsey Green than Warlingham (and is very close to Hamsey Green Junior and Infant schools) and is a senior state school. Warlingham Park School is a tiny private school which is very close to Chelsham Common (and is in Greatpark housing estate).