Woodside Green

Woodside Green is an area and street located in Woodside, London, centred on a village green. The station is located near to Woodside tram stop in the London Borough of Croydon. The green is over 4¾ acres (1. 92 hectares). HistoryOne of the earliest records of Woodside Green is in an indenture of 1662 which mentions "land lying up on a green called Woodside Green". The Croydon Inclosure Map of 1800 shows an area " Woodside Green". In 1870, an agent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioner instructed builders to dig out the ground plan of a church at the north eastern end of the land. A local resident saw this as an invasion of a public open space and therefore engaged workmen to backfill the foundations as quickly as they were dug. The Commissioners threatened legal action but eventually the matter was compromised and a site for the proposed church was found elsewhere. In 1871, a grant of copyhold estate in Woodside was made at the general court baron of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Croydon Local Board of Health upon condition that it should be appropriated by the Board: "to be forever kept as an open space and used as, and for, a place of recreation for the use of inhabitants of the parish of Croydon and of the neighbourhood and for no other purpose". Four months later, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, under the authority of an Order of Council, conveyed to the Local Board the freehold of the land "freed from all incidents whatsoever of copyhold or customary tenure to be held and used for the purpose of public walks, recreation or pleasure grounds only". The land was held and used by the Local Board of Health and its successors ever since.

Woodside Green is an area and street located in Woodside, London, centred on a village green. The station is located near to Woodside tram stop in the London Borough of Croydon. The green is over 4¾ acres (1. 92 hectares). HistoryOne of the earliest records of Woodside Green is in an indenture of 1662 which mentions "land lying up on a green called Woodside Green". The Croydon Inclosure Map of 1800 shows an area " Woodside Green". In 1870, an agent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioner instructed builders to dig out the ground plan of a church at the north eastern end of the land. A local resident saw this as an invasion of a public open space and therefore engaged workmen to backfill the foundations as quickly as they were dug. The Commissioners threatened legal action but eventually the matter was compromised and a site for the proposed church was found elsewhere. In 1871, a grant of copyhold estate in Woodside was made at the general court baron of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Croydon Local Board of Health upon condition that it should be appropriated by the Board: "to be forever kept as an open space and used as, and for, a place of recreation for the use of inhabitants of the parish of Croydon and of the neighbourhood and for no other purpose". Four months later, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, under the authority of an Order of Council, conveyed to the Local Board the freehold of the land "freed from all incidents whatsoever of copyhold or customary tenure to be held and used for the purpose of public walks, recreation or pleasure grounds only". The land was held and used by the Local Board of Health and its successors ever since.