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James Thorne (1876), "Croydon", Handbook to the Environs of London, London: John Murray, hdl: 2027/mdp.39015063815669In 1965 (under the terms of the London Government Act 1963) the County Borough of Croydon was abolished and the area was transferred to Greater London and combined with the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District to form the London Borough of Croydon. Croydon High Street runs from South Croydon up to the point where it meets the street called North End. North End is the main shopping street, while Croydon High Street is the main restaurant quarter. Most of the town centre lies within the Addiscombe and Fairfield wards, which form part of the Croydon Central constituency. [73] The rest of the town centre is in the Croham ward, which is part of the Croydon South constituency. These wards are all in the London Borough of Croydon, which is responsible for services along with other agencies such as education, refuse collection, road maintenance, local planning and social care. The Addiscombe ward is currently represented by Labour Councillors . The Fairfield and Croham wards have, by contrast, habitually elected Conservative members. The sitting Member of Parliament for Croydon Central is Sarah Jones, a member of the Labour Party. The sitting Member of Parliament for Croydon South is Chris Philp, a member of the Conservatives. The Member of Parliament for Croydon North is Steve Reed, for the Labour Party. Jane Drew (1911–1996), modernist architect, born in Thornton Heath and head girl at Croydon High School

Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F.M. (1934). The Place-Names of Surrey. English Place-Name Society. Vol.11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.47–48. a b c Ayto, John; Crofton, Ian (2005). Brewer's Britain and Ireland. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35385-X. London Borough of Croydon map of wards" (PDF). Croydon Council. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2008 . Retrieved 18 July 2008. London Borough of Croydon: Habitat Action Plan" (PDF). croydon.gov.uk . Retrieved 28 November 2016. The borough has been the residence of many renowned authors and novelists, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who set up house in Norwood, D.H. Lawrence, and French novelist Émile Zola, who lived for a time in the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Cicely Mary Barker, author and illustrator of the Flower Fairies series of books, was born in Croydon.

For centuries the area lay within the Wallington hundred, an ancient Anglo-Saxon administrative division of the county of Surrey. [66] In the later Middle Ages – probably from the late 13th century onwards – residents of the town of Croydon, as defined by boundary markers known as the "four crosses", enjoyed a degree of self-government through a town court or portmote, and a form of free tenure of property. [67] These privileges set the area of the town apart from its rural hinterland, where the more usual and more restrictive rules of manorial tenure applied. However, Croydon did not hold any kind of formal borough status. insidecroydon (13 January 2023). "Soda Beat concert at Stanley Halls, South Norwood, Feb 20". Inside Croydon . Retrieved 10 April 2023. Whalley, Kirsty (15 September 2010). "ELO man dies". Croydon Guardian. Newsquest Media Group. p.15. Slavid, Ruth (12 March 1998). "EDAW masterplan begins the transformation of Croydon". The Architects' Journal. EMAP Publishing Limited . Retrieved 2 February 2019.