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brogdale said:
Yay! The Sussex cattle herd are back on the Roundshaw Downs (old Croydon airport site). For those that don't know, they live in the specially fenced area in the far SW of the airport site over by Roundshaw estate.

Cattle are pretty much where the blue duck (?) is shown on the map:

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this reminds me of when i was in newcastle a couple of years back and the local park had a herd of cows in it

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The Leazes cows: All your questions answered

Why are they there tho?
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People really taking advantage of the 50% meal deals mon to weds in South Croydon. Restaurants have been heaving! Couldn't get into Bagattis without a booking. Went to Ponte Nuevo under the bridge, £27 for 2 of us. Starters and mains!
 
I've been out jogging taking out my newly teened up daughter on road safety bike lessons. We've been visiting areas all over the woods, Addington hills lloyd park, South Norwood country park and selsdon wood. . .
I'm running out of ideas. Where else (starting point Addiscombe) in Croydon is relatively fun to visit/explore?
 
crojoe said:
crystal palace park and beckenham place park are both good if they're not too far. or south norwood lake.
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Might be just about doable, but the daughter is tired from cycling to selsdon wood yesterday (it is uphill all the way) so might not be ready for Beckenham Place Park or heavy hills to Crystal Palace. I was hoping I had missed something interesting a little closer to home.

Just noticed those cattle at Croydon airport. Would they still be there?
 
Dan U said:
Croham Hurst Woods?
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Actually that was my plan for tomorrow. We went past it yesterday on the way to Selsdon Wood. I don't think my daughter would be so keen to go in exactly the same direction we did yesterday. . . . .Right now I have just had a massive wave of nausea and sweat sweep over me (unrelated to this thread) so I might have to only try something very mild today.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I've been out jogging taking out my newly teened up daughter on road safety bike lessons. We've been visiting areas all over the woods, Addington hills lloyd park, South Norwood country park and selsdon wood. . .
I'm running out of ideas. Where else (starting point Addiscombe) in Croydon is relatively fun to visit/explore?
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Farthing Downs, Coulsdon. Lovely it is, but you'd have to take Brighton Road and Purley Cross (although I'd advise getting off and crossing like a pedestrian there).
Its relatively flat all the way there and back
 
D'wards said:
Farthing Downs, Coulsdon. Lovely it is, but you'd have to take Brighton Road and Purley Cross (although I'd advise getting off and crossing like a pedestrian there).
Its relatively flat all the way there and back
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Oof, that's an over 13 mile round trip, I'm not quite up for jogging that far at the moment. I need to get back in better shape first. Might try a solo bike trek though when my daughter returns to school.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Oof, that's an over 13 mile round trip, I'm not quite up for jogging that far at the moment. I need to get back in better shape first. Might try a solo bike trek though when my daughter returns to school.
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Oh so you're jogging and she's riding, like Rocky?
I live in central Croydon and there's about an 8 mile walk I do - up through Lloyd's Park by the allotments. Turn left and walk to Shirley hills, all the way up until you get to gravel Hill, down Bishops Walk, past addington Palace into addington Park, cross addington Park, and up spout hill.
All the way along Shirley Church Road to trinity roundabout then home for a nice cup of tea and a sit down. Tiring but good
 
hash tag said:
An interesting little diverson which i discovered recently by Addington Hills is Coombe Wood Gardens.

On a different note, fancy a virtual tour? Virtual Tour Beautiful Downtown Croydon the good the bad and the ugly
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I love Coombe Gardens. I'm a regular!

Been going since I was a little boy, taken by my grandparents. Back then it had what was known locally as the Chinese Cafe as it was run by a Chinese family who would work out your change on an abacus.
It was a normal cafe though- cuppa and a dry cheese roll type.

They used to stable the police horses there too, and it was nice to give them a pat on the way through
 
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D'wards said:
Oh so you're jogging and she's riding, like Rocky?
I live in central Croydon and there's about an 8 mile walk I do - up through Lloyd's Park by the allotments. Turn left and walk to Shirley hills, all the way up until you get to gravel Hill, down Bishops Walk, past addington Palace into addington Park, cross addington Park, and up spout hill.
All the way along Shirley Church Road to trinity roundabout then home for a nice cup of tea and a sit down. Tiring but good
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Yes Rocky style.

I have done a lot of jogging around and beyond Lloyd park, it's only a five minute jog from my house so a fairly good starting point. I go slightly different routes though I think. If I am heading up Addington hills (is this what you meant by Shirley Hills?) I go right though Lloyd park from the allotments in an almost straight line to the unnamed road that runs onto Oaks road along where they built a golf course. The across the road and up through the wood to the viewing platform. Then wherever from there. I used to go a much more round about way, but I think I prefer this way now avoiding as much road as possible.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
If I am heading up Addington hills (is this what you meant by Shirley Hills?)
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Its an odd thing- on the maps and signs they are listed as Lloyd Park and Addington Hills but the born and bred Croydonites always refer to them as Lloyd's Park and Shirley Hills.
Likewise Coombe Wood Gardens is always Coombe Gardens, never heard it referred to with the Wood before
 
Anyone heard of 'pocket living', doesn't sound like living in a pocket (or other people's pockets?) Is ideal.
There is this development happening just round the corner from me.

Pocket - New Developments - Addiscombe Grove CR0, East Croydon

www.pocketliving.com www.pocketliving.com

Looks proper mental.

Looks like a fun twenty something utopia, and maybe will be until the reality sets in . Not sure what other options the young will have, but a starting price of £260,000 for a flat with no space for cupboards billed as budget living (there has even been a 20% discount as well apparently) is quite depressing. If it actually was cheap, I think it might be a better solution, as a starter home. . . But Jesus, my three bed joint purchase with my wife was £305 and I doubt we could afford to move again or upgrade (our house may be worth more now but so are all the other ones).

I love the romantic pics they have taken of the area for the brochure though. Market, boxpark, shite second hand that shop. . . A pub. No idea why they posted a picture of crystal place park 'dinosaurs' when Lloyd park is so close. There really are some great things around here but the developers appear to have put very little effort in actually scoping that out. Just nicely framed photos.

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Look at this. Looks tiny, but according to the floor plans they seem to have invented a cupboard and also put the sofa smack bang in front of the walk to make it work for the pic.

There is another development going on at cherry orchard road. I wonder how this is going to change the area, and the way people live in general in the future?
 
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D'wards said:
Koi carp as thick as your thigh!

The last time I went the toilets were closed (about a month ago) for covid reasons.
My mum had to wee in the bushes 😬

They are probably open again now
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One thing I have never done there is use the cafe. I have to admit that I enjoy the place a whole lot more in the winter when nobody is there.

There was this place I happened upon once a bit further up the road I think. Some kind of mansion with gardens, a pretty view and a pond in one area. I saw a sign that it was open the next day for a tea and cake sale. I took my wife and daughter (so it can't have been that far or they would have moaned). . . . I have no idea what it was called or where it was (though I must of at one point to remember how to get back). Any ideas?
 
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