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Upper Norwood

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Worth seeing in and around Upper Norwood

10 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
    Selhurst Park

    Football stadium in Selhurst, in the London Borough of Croydon, England

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dulwich Picture Gallery

    Art gallery in Dulwich, South London, United Kingdom

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology

    City technology college in Croydon, England

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Horniman Museum and Gardens

    Museum in Forest Hill, London, England, United Kingdom

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

    1854 sculpture series in Crystal Palace Park, London, United Kingdom

    1.8 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

    National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, United Kingdom

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    West Norwood Cemetery

    Cemetery in West Norwood in London, England, UK

    2 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Crystal Palace transmitting station

    Telecommunications site in Bromley, England

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Croydon Mosque

    Mosque in London, England, United Kingdom

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Spurgeon's College

    Baptist theological college in London

    1.1 km · 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.

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Getting to Upper Norwood

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 26 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 55 km
Stations
Crystal Palace railway station, 1.4 km · Forest Hill railway station, 3.8 km · Penge West railway station, 2.3 km · Norwood Junction railway station, 2.3 km · Sydenham railway station, 3 km
  • Luton, Luton → Upper Norwood
    56 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–9
  • London, Essex → Upper Norwood
    11 km · quickest by road, 51 min · £1–1.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Upper Norwood
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £19–26
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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 Upper Norwood

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 Upper Norwood. 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

    117 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    319 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    402 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    570 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    606 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upper Norwood

Upper Norwood is 11 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dulwichdistrict in the London Borough of Southwark, England3.6 km
  • Streathamdistrict in South London, England2.6 km
  • Pengedistrict in South London UK2 km
  • Thornton Heathdistrict of South London, England2 km
  • South Norwooddistrict of south east London, England2.1 km
  • West Norwoodresidential area of south London within the London Borough of Lambeth1.3 km