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A major town in South London or Surrey depending on your point of view -- it is within a Greater London borough (of the same name), but classified as Surrey from the post office's point of view. It is within the CR0 postal district.

Croydon has grand aspirations - like many large towns it applied unsuccessfully for city status in 2000 and 2002, and it has a number of "skyscrapers" in the town centre.

Croydon is particularly notable for two things. Firstly it has excellent transport links: for Central London, Brighton and many other south coast destinations, and locally thanks to an extensive bus and tram network. Secondly, Croydon is a significant local shopping nexus, with two large "malls" in the centre (the Whitgift and Centrale centres, with another in the planning stages) and a considerable out-of-town retail park on Purley Way.

Historically, Croydon can boast the world's first (horse-drawn) public railway, and London's first international passenger airport (opened in 1915, but now long gone).

Although the centre is largely given over to commercial and industrial use, there is a notable pocket of residential development just to the south-east, close by East Croydon Station, the Park Hill 'Village'. It was laid out in the 1960s and 70s, replacing a stately home, and is bounded on the east by the Tramlink tunnel and [Lloyd Park]?.

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Auto-generated list of things in Croydon (view them on a map):

North: Selhurst
North-East: Woodside
East: Addiscombe
South: South Croydon
West: Waddon
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