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Dawn, Fox Hill, SE19
A view over several miles of lower land to the North Downs.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 21 Oct 2011
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Croydon Board of Health drain grid, Fox Hill
"Croydon Board of Health" puts this drain grid before the setting up of Croydon County Borough in the late 19th century. It can be seen still exercising its function in
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Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 14 Jan 2012
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Fox Hill, Upper Norwood: Christmas Day 2012
Rain just beginning to ease up, after a downpour that had lasted since before dawn.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 25 Dec 2012
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Fox Hill, Autumn
The white garage doors mark the entrance to Jenson Way. In the distance, several miles off, is the high ground of Keston Common and beyond it the North Downs.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 21 Sep 2011
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Fox Hill, Autumn
The white garage doors mark the entrance to Jenson Way, and beyond them the large Victorian villas of Fox Hill Gardens. In the distance, several miles off, is the high ground of Keston Common and beyond it the North Downs.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 21 Sep 2011
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Dawn, Fox Hill, SE19
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 21 Oct 2011
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Reynard Close and the back gardens of houses on Fox Hill
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 11 Dec 2010
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Fox Hill, SE19, summer afternoon
In the distance, thundery weather gathers over the North Downs.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 31 Aug 2017
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Jenson Way, London SE19
Part of the small Vixen Grove estate, a development owned communally by the residents.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 25 Dec 2016
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Fox Hill: monkey-puzzle and Victorian villas
I suspect that both the tree and villas date from the 1850s. The Crystal Palace was re-erected on the site to the east of Anerley Hill in 1854, and the railway arrived that same year, at the Low Level station - opening this hilly area up to suburban development.
As for the monkey-puzzle tree, dipping into an old 'New Naturalist' volume (Dudley Stamp's, 'Man and the Land') I see that the Chile Pine (Araucaria imbricata) was introduced into England in 1796. A friend who was with me when I took the photo remarked that the species has now become scarce in London. Apparently the monkey-puzzle is susceptible to hard frost - but I suspect many of the losses were due to the storms of 1987 and 1990.
The roadway here must be one of the steepest in South London - steeper, I'd say, than streets such as The Downs and Edge Hill in Wimbledon.
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 1 Mar 2016
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