The History Of Surrey Volume 4 Part 1

Author : Edw Wedlake Brayley
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ISBN 13 : 9781331970231
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The History of Surrey, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) written by Edw Wedlake Brayley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Surrey, Vol. 4 An act of parliament, to fisusilitate the recovery of small debts in certain parts of Kent, which was passed in 1765, was in the following year extended to the hundred of Wallington; and it was subsequently amended by enactments in 1770, and 1807. Croydon. This parish is bounded on the north by Lambeth and Streatham; on the east, by the hamlet of Penge, the parishes of Beckenham and West Wickham, in Kent, and that of Addington in Surrey; on the south, by Addington, Sanderstead, and Coulsdon; and on the west, by Beddington and Mitcham. It is very extensive, being about thirty-six miles in circumference; and the soil, as might be expected, varies greatly in different parts of it, consisting of chalk, gravel, sand, clay, and peat Lysons mentions a large chalk-pit, about a mile from the town, near the road to Addington, which afforded a great variety of extraneous fossils. The river Wandle rises in the lower part of the town, near the church. This is a place of great antiquity, and about a mile in length. That part now called High-street was formerly only a bridle-road through fields. The old or lower town, called Old Croydon, was situated farther from London, towards Beddington; and there were ruins of it remaining in 1783. Gale, in his Commentary on the Itinerary of Antoninus, says, that a Roman road passed through Old Croydon, from Woodcote to Streatham; and the first-mentioned place has been supposed by some antiquaries to be the site of the station called Naviomofftis. Both Camden and Gale notice a tradition that there was anciently a royal palace, westward of the town, next Haling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.