Sylvan Hill
The name of this road perfectly sums up the area as it was in the 1850s in which it is situated. Sylvan Hill started life as just a narrow lane leading to the fields lower down....
Maps and Land Ownership
On the 1800 ‘Inclosure Map’ the land was shown as woodland owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Before that the whole area of Upper Norwood was ‘common land’ open to the local residents for grazing their animals and collecting firewood.
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1950 compilation
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1940
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1910
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1899
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1848
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1800 Croydon Inclosure map
Timeline
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Building of the street
Orphanage exercise (Norwood.org History-Archives-webv2)
Architecture
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Significant Street Buildings
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Social History
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Residents
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Memories
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War
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Census
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