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Selhurst, Croydon — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Selhurst is a suburb of the London Borough of Croydon, England, with Selhurst Park at its northern end.
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Where to stay in Selhurst
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Beds cluster in Croydon. Selhurst holds a residential grid between Thornton Heath and South Norwood, and a traveller booking a room for a match at Selhurst Park will usually find the nearest supply a short ride away in central Croydon rather than on these streets. Local rooms are few.
The London Borough of Croydon runs the transport that makes that workable, so a night booked elsewhere in the borough still puts Selhurst Park and the Church of St Alban within an easy local journey.
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The Selhurst Park end
The stadium stands at the northern end of Selhurst, so the walk in is short even when the room itself was booked down in Croydon.Find hotels in The Selhurst Park endquiet streets on the boundary with WoodsideThe South Norwood edge
Selhurst runs east into South Norwood and Woodside as plain residential frontage, with the Church of St Alban rather than any hotel row marking the streets. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in The South Norwood edgeHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Selhurst
What are the main landmarks in Selhurst?
Two entries carry the neighbourhood's name in the record: Selhurst Park at the northern end, and the Church of St Alban among the streets below it. Selhurst Park is the ground of Crystal Palace Football Club. Croydon Common Athletic Ground rounds out the register, a third named site attached to Selhurst rather than to the wider London Borough of Croydon.
Past those three, Selhurst is homes.
What is the history of Selhurst?
Surrey claimed it first. Written history for Selhurst is short, and what survives attaches to buildings rather than to events: the Church of St Alban among the streets, and Selhurst Park at the northern end of the neighbourhood, which Crystal Palace Football Club has used as its ground. Croydon Common Athletic Ground is the other name on the register.
That shift out of Surrey into the London Borough of Croydon is the durable fact of its administrative past, and the suburb it left behind is bounded by Thornton Heath, Croydon, South Norwood and Woodside.
Where is Selhurst?
Selhurst occupies suburban ground south-east of Charing Cross, walled in west and south by Thornton Heath and Croydon, east and south by South Norwood and Woodside.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Selhurst?
The Selhurst Park end: arriving on foot for a Crystal Palace Football Club fixture. The South Norwood edge: quiet streets on the boundary with Woodside.
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Updated October 2026