Croydon

Home > ... > Places > Britain, Ireland, France, and the Low Countries > British and Irish Political Geography > ...

Essential reading Compare
side-by-side Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Croydon

Croydon outer borough (1991 pop. 299,600) of Greater London, SE England. It is London's second largest shopping and cultural center after West End. London's first airport, the Croydon Aerodrome, was constructed there in 1915 but closed in 1959 after Heathrow was built. Scientific instruments, internal-combustion engines, and electronic equipment are manufactured, but Croydon is largely residential. Several office buildings have been constructed in the borough, which also has a technical college and a college of art.

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/.aspx#1E1-Croydon" title="Facts and information about Croydon">Croydon</a>

Give this article a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

"Croydon." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Nov. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"Croydon." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (November 10, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Croydon.html

"Croydon." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Croydon.html

Learn more about citation styles

Croydon

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Â© Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Croydon, England/UK Croindene (Greater London) ‘Wild Saffron Valley’ from the Old English croh ‘saffron’ and denu ‘valley’.

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/.aspx#1O209-Croydon" title="Facts and information about Croydon">Croydon</a>

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Croydon." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. Oxford University Press. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Nov. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Croydon." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. Oxford University Press. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (November 10, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Croydon.html

JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Croydon." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. Oxford University Press. 2005. Retrieved November 10, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Croydon.html

Learn more about citation styles

Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Croydon Tramlink To Open First Stage Before The Year End.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: International Railway Journal; 11/1/1999
	MachineWeb.com and The Croydon Group Announce Proposed Alliance. Business Wire; 6/26/2000
	The Croydon Tramlink project.(English light rail)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Railway Age; 12/1/1995

Facts and information from other sites

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, and more

	Croydon the new Barcelona? ; Pounds 4bn vision to transform city of roads and towers Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 11/13/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...architecture outside the old Soviet bloc. Now Croydon wants to turn itself into Barcelona...to reverse the car's stranglehold on Croydon. The "forest of car parks" in the town...might fish for Wandle trout. He said: "Croydon needs to dare to dream it should set its...
	Travel: Croydon, cybersuburb? Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/9/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...might also advise you to "die and see Croydon". Ever since Captain Sensible enjoyed a minor hit with a song called "Croydon" in the early Eighties, this commuter...so the town hopes, is changing. Croydon is undergoing the greatest make...
	Come to continental Croydon Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/30/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...from modern Surrey towns like sprawling, concrete Croydon. The truth, palatable or otherwise, is that sometime...mists of olde worlde England, Crogedene became Croydon; big, brash Croydon, the butt of jokes, a would-be Manhattan, a...
	THIS IS THE FUTURE OF CROYDON - IF ALSOP HAS HIS WAY... Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 11/15/2007; ; 700+ words ; Will Alsop lived in Croydon in the 1970s. Now, 35 years later...tells me that in the '60s and 70s 'Croydon was the English version of Manhattan...seems amazing, Alsop is adamant that Croydon's proximity to London - it is 19km...
	SO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN ...CROYDON. Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 1/12/2003; 700+ words ; Croydon's image is grim: a dreary South London...richest by average income. Terraces in Croydon town centre are priced from pound sterling160...apartments and townhouses in East and West Croydon. TRANSPORT LINKS Excellent. Trains from...
	Comment: Why you can't lick Croydon Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/6/2000; ; 700+ words ; THE Royal Mail has chosen Croydon as the subject for its latest 64p stamp. The news is astonishing...does it show three coloured ring-doughnuts, with no sign of Croydon? Why Croydon anyway? Why not Slough? Is it all right (some added in a...
	Cover Story: What's so funny about Croydon? Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/8/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...was beetling through the outskirts of Croydon at the legal limit (4mph) and poor Mrs...culled by the motor car. In retrospect, Croydon seemed an appropriate setting for this...over so promiscuously to the car. When Croydon was rebuilt in the Sixties, under the...
	This is Croydon, gateway to the planet Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/16/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...visiting a restaurant but not eating. At Croydon airport in south London, the only aircraft...The magnificent Art Deco interior of Croydon's main terminal hall has been so well...trim of the aircraft. Final call for Croydon was 41 years ago this month. After the...
	The essential ... Croydon; London Jobs/Local focus. Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 1/20/2005; 593 words ; Byline: MIRANDA COLLINGE CROYDON is a stronghold of the financial-services and...croyweb.com/basic/recruitment .htm; Croydon Business Venture: www.cbvltd.co.uk; Croydon Chamber of Commerce: www.croydonchamber.org...
	PRIVATE VIEW: Croydon blazes a trail. Magazine article from: Design Week; 1/4/2008; 700+ words ; David Bernstein hopes that Croydon's makeover will be as innovative...the burning issue of the future of Croydon was alleviated by the prospect of adding...earnest'. Where it ends in earnest is Croydon. Croydon gets more than its fair share...