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Fairdene Road, COULSDON, CR5 1RA

Edwardian villas on Downs Road, overlooking Farthing Downs, first appearing on the 1912 1:2,500 map, when the road was shown as Fanfare Road. Although the nearest house seems newer in style, it too first appears on that map.

These houses, dating from around 1900, have an enviable situation right on the edge of Farthing Downs.

Edwardian villas on Downs Road, overlooking Farthing Downs, first appearing on the 1912 1:2,500 map, when the road was shown as Fanfare Road.

Edwardian villas on Downs Road, overlooking Farthing Downs, first appearing on the 1912 1:2,500 map, when the road was shown as Fanfare Road. In the foreground is cattle grid and gate marking the entrance to Farthing Downs. For a close up of one of the City of London Corporation posts by the entrance, see Image

When walking from Coulsdon via the lane which runs along Farthing Downs, one encounters no less than ten coal posts. For the sake of clarity, I have allocated letters A to J to each of the posts; the letters are as follows: A and B: These posts are not actually on Farthing Downs; they are (one each side) of a very short (c. 3 metres) piece of metalled road connecting Downs Road with the metalled lane that runs north to south along Farthing Downs. This lane,as far as I am aware, has no name, although at its southern end it connects with Ditches Lane. The post in this picture is Post A, the northerly one of two across this short strip of road.

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Edwardian villas on Downs Road, overlooking Farthing Downs, first appearing on the 1912 1:2,500 map, when the road was shown as Fanfare Road.

Coulsdon South station was opened by the South Eastern Railway in October 1889. The line is on a steep gradient climbing towards Merstham Tunnel. It was originally called Coulsdon and Cane Hill, referring to the nearby Cane Hill Hospital - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_Hill_Hospital Coulsdon South station is on the original Brighton Line, opened in two stages in 1841. To the west is the so-called Quarry Line, built by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway as an avoiding line between Coulsdon North and Earlswood and which is still used by fast trains avoiding Redhill. It was opened on 8th November 1899.

The opposite side to A. See Image

These four posts are very close to A and B. They stand across the cattle grid at the northern end of the lane across Farthing Downs. In the picture,the nearest post is D, with C on the opposite side of the road. F and E are on the other side of the cattle grid, with E partly obscured. See Image