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Monks Orchard, Croydon — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Monks Orchard is a district of Croydon marked by three churches and a churchyard monument to the Preston family.
About Monks Orchard
Where to stay in Monks Orchard
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Croydon takes the booking. Monks Orchard holds churches rather than hotels, St George The Martyr Church, the Church of St John and Shirley Methodist Church stand within it, so a visitor who wants a room reserves one in Croydon and comes out here for the churchyard of St John. Beds are a Croydon matter.
Anyone based in the town can reach the Preston family monument and the three churches on the same short outing, which is the shape most visits to Monks Orchard take.
About Monks Orchard
What are the main landmarks in Monks Orchard?
Four entries, three of them churches. St George The Martyr Church, the Church of St John and Shirley Methodist Church make up the built register of Monks Orchard, and the fourth entry belongs to a churchyard rather than to a building. That fourth is the Monument To Members Of The Preston Family In North West Corner Of Churchyard Of St John, listed under a name that doubles as its own set of directions.
Past those four names, the list stops.
What is the history of Monks Orchard?
No charter names this ground. The surviving record for Monks Orchard is a parish record: the Preston family are commemorated in the churchyard of St John, and St George The Martyr Church and Shirley Methodist Church stand as the other fixed points in a district of Croydon without a founding date. Names are the whole archive.
A visitor reading the register finds three church names and one memorial, which is the entire documented past of Monks Orchard as it survives in the record.
Where is Monks Orchard?
Monks Orchard sits inside Croydon, its ground defined by the churchyard of St John and the frontage around Shirley Methodist Church.
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Updated September 2026