Old Town, Croydon

As defined for modern planning purposes, the neighbourhood includes Surrey Street Market to the east, and extends west as far as the boundaries of Wandle Park, and south to Croydon Flyover (part of the east–west A232 road).

One suggestion is that it ran through Old Town, and it is in acknowledgement of this theory that the local section of the A236 dual carriageway was named Roman Way in the 1960s.

However, in 1276 Archbishop Robert Kilwardby acquired a charter for a weekly market, and, probably in association with this charter, laid out a new market place on the higher ground to the east, in the triangle now bounded by High Street, Surrey Street and Crown Hill.

The company came to widespread national public attention in August 2011, when one of its buildings was destroyed in an arson attack during the 2011 England riots.

[7] In 2017 the area was the site of a council-funded tech incubator scheme, with several companies relocating from central London.