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Coulsdon

Coulsdon is a town in south London, England, within the London Borough of Croydon.

Coulsdon
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The place

Coulsdon is a town in south London, England, within the London Borough of Croydon. Coulsdon was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey that included the settlements of Purley and Kenley. It was merged with Sanderstead in 1915 to form the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District and has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coulsdon

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Duppas Hill

    Duppas Hill is a park, road and surrounding residential area in Waddon, near Croydon in Greater London. Duppas Hill has a long history of sport and recreation.

    5.5 km · hill and park in the London Borough of Croydon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Trinity Church

    Trinity Church, Sutton is a Grade II listed United Reformed and Methodist church in the centre of Sutton, London. It was built in 1907 in the Gothic style with Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings.

    5.9 km · church in Sutton, London · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Manor Park

    Manor Park is a public park in the town of Sutton in Greater London. It was created in 1914 on a site in the town centre, opposite the police station.

    5.9 km · park in Sutton, London · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Recreation Ground, Banstead

    The Recreation Ground is a cricket ground in Banstead, Surrey. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1955, when South Women Second XI played the Women's Cricket Association.

    4.1 km · cricket ground in Banstead, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Grove Park

    The Grove Park, or The Grove is a public park in Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton. It is situated close to Carshalton Village in the area approximately bounded by the High Street, North Street and Mill Lane.

    5.3 km · public park in Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Chisenhale Gallery

    Chisenhale Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art gallery based in London's East End. The gallery occupies the ground level of a former veneer factory on Chisenhale Road, situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, near Victoria Park and flanking the Hertford Union Canal.

    5.9 km · non profit art gallery in London · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints is a church of England church in Croydon, London, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    4.7 km · church in Sanderstead, London · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Peter and St Paul

    The Church of Saints Peter and Paul at Chaldon, Surrey, is a Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Southwark. The building was begun before 1086 and is Grade I listed.

    4.1 km · church at Chaldon, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Coulsdon

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 19 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 64 km
Stations
Coulsdon South railway station, 600 m · Wallington railway station, 4.4 km · Carshalton Beeches railway station, 4.7 km · Purley railway station, 2.5 km · South Croydon railway station, 5.6 km
  • Luton, Luton → Coulsdon
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £10–13
  • London, Essex → Coulsdon
    21 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £2–3
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Coulsdon
    177 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £21–28
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Coulsdon

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Coulsdon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWhile the runway is usable by aircraft up to Boeing 737/Airbus A320 size, it is prohibited for airline operators to sell tickets for flights in and out of the airport, thus there are no scheduled or holiday charter flights from the airport.

From Wikivoyage: London/South, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    108 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    316 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    410 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    577 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    613 km

If you know how people move in Coulsdon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Coulsdon

Coulsdon is 21 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • London Borough of Suttonborough in the London Region in England6 km
  • Q2220276suburb of London in the London Borough of Sutton, England5.3 km
  • Bansteadtown in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England4.5 km
  • Whyteleafevillage in Tandridge district, Surrey, United Kingdom4.1 km
  • Chaldonvillage in Tandridge, Surrey, England, UK4 km
  • Warlinghamvillage in Tandridge district, Surrey, England5.8 km