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Woodside, Croydon — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Between Addiscombe and South Norwood, Woodside covers a stretch of south London inside the London Borough of Croydon.
About Woodside
Where to stay in Woodside
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The pull here is the South Norwood Leisure Centre and the moated site out at Elmers End. Woodside carries no hotel frontage of its own, and a traveller who wants a desk and a key books into Croydon, where the borough keeps the bulk of its supply, then returns out past the Church of St Luke. Its own streets offer none. Selhurst lies west and Shirley east, so a stay anywhere along that line keeps the Church of the Holy Innocents and the Church of St Mark both within reach.
About Woodside
What are the main landmarks in Woodside?
Five entries, three of them churches. The Church of the Holy Innocents, the Church of St Luke and the Church of St Mark account for three of them, while the South Norwood Leisure Centre supplies the one civic building on Woodside's list. Elmers End moated site, South Norwood closes the register, an earthwork rather than a structure.
Ground, not masonry.
What is the history of Woodside?
Documents are scarce here. Woodside has no founding year on file, and its register mixes an earthwork, Elmers End moated site, South Norwood, with three parish churches and a leisure centre. The neighbours filled in.
What the written record preserves is a list of dedications: the Church of the Holy Innocents, the Church of St Luke and the Church of St Mark, each one attached to Woodside rather than to Addiscombe or South Norwood on either side.
Where is Woodside?
The area runs east from Selhurst towards Shirley and Monks Orchard, with South Norwood to the north and Addiscombe to the south, inside the London Borough of Croydon.
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Updated September 2026