Woodside, London
…woods and a lake. Croydon Racecourse opened in 1866 on nearby Stroud Green Farm abutting Monks Orchard (now the site of Ashburton Community School and Ashburton Playing Fields), prompting the opening of a railway station in 1871, though the racecourse closed in 1890. In 1871, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners granted 'copyhold…