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THE

HISTORY

OF

CROYDON.

CHAP. I.

General Account of the Town and Parish of Croydon.

THE town of Croydon is pleasantly situated in the county of Surrey, about ten miles South of the metropolis; it is large and handsome, upon the great turnpike-road leading from London (through East Grinstead and Lewes, or through Reigate, Crawley, and Cuckfield) to Brighton. Here are also roads conducting the traveller eastward into Kent; one of which extends through Westerham and Sevenoaks, to Tunbridge and other places; the other,

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passing through Beckenham, Bromley, and Bexley, joins the high road to the coast at Dartford.

Croydon is in the midst of a country rich in the natural beauties for which Surrey is remarkable; and it will be readily admitted by those who are acquainted with the scenery, that Addington Hills on the East, the village of Beddington on the West, and Banstead Downs on the South-west, afford it a neighbourhood at once delightful and salubrious.

The town consists chiefly of one well-built street, near a mile in length, called the Highstreet, which was formerly nothing more than a bridle-way over the fields; but leading over higher ground, and in a more direct course than through the old Town, by usage it be-came the principal road, and was at length built upon. Here are situated the Courthouse, the two Markets, with excellent shops and inns-the shops plentifully supplied with the various articles necessary in the different branches of trade, administer materially to the convenience and comfort of the numerous families in the town and its vicinity. At the principal Inns travellers experience the most assiduous attention and best accommodation, both during the time of their continuance, and

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