Fox Hill: Penge boundary sign
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Fox Hill: Penge boundary sign
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 14 Jul 2009
Unusually, the border between administrative areas here runs not down the middle of the road but along the garden frontage. The road and houses on its southern side lies in the borough of Croydon; the houses and gardens to the north lie in the borough of Bromley. Prior to 1965 this was the border between Croydon in Surrey and the borough of Penge in Kent. Penge in its turn was, originally, a detached portion ("hamlet") of the parish of Battersea, an arrangement going back to medieval land ownership patterns.
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Image Location
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51.415414
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-0.078332