Information about Foxley Wood
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Information about Foxley Wood
Image: © Marathon Taken: 18 Jul 2012
In 1867 the Lords of the Manor started selling off plots of land for building development in this area and in 1875 George Armstrong, a prosperous merchant and manufacturer of linseed oil cake, purchased the Great Foxley Estate and built the large house "Foxley", later to be known as Foxley Hall. The estate was again sold in 1893 to Edward Densham, a tea merchant who, with his brothers and father founded the Mazawattee tea company. The Foxley Estate was finally sold in 1937 to Coulsdon & Purley Urban District Council and is now owned and managed by the London Borough of Croydon. It is situated along the top of the west side of the Caterham Valley. This notice board is on the edge of Higher Drive Recreation Ground and Foxley Wood is to the left. In the distance, Riddlesdown can be seen on the other side of the Caterham Valley - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3025077
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51.32659
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