Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THORNTON-HEATH

THORNTON-HEATH, a village in the NE of Surrey; on the London West End and Croydon railway, 1¾ mile N of Croydon. It has a r. station with telegraph, a post-office under London S, a police station, and an Independent chapel built in 1865.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Surrey AncC
Place: Thornton Heath

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