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Forestdale
St. Paul's Churchyard, London - 020 7332 3456
Piccadilly Circus Underground - 0343 222 1234
visit@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Forestdale is a residential neighbourhood of southeast London in the London Borough of Croydon. It is sometimes considered to be part of Addington, its ancient and ecclesiastical parish. It is located south of Upper Shirley, east of Selsdon, south-west of Addington's historic centre, north-west of New Addington and north of Farleigh and is east of West Wickham.

Forestdale has public green verges and a nature reserve with diverse walks. Adjoining are Addington and Croydon's closest golf courses. Forestdale is linked to Croydon via Addington by Featherbed Lane and is also linked towards Croydon or Orpington via West Wickham which skirts the suburb on one side.

The suburb consists of cul-de-sacs running off four main roads, the cul-de-sacs being subdivided into several 'neighbourhoods'. All houses within a cul-de-sac are of the same style, but differ from other cul-de-sacs in style and materials, such as weatherboarding, brick colour and arrangement, and so uniformity of style is achieved within one cul-de-sac but differs from the others.

Forestdale contains a community centre (The Forum) on Pixton Way. There is a small row of shops at the junction of Featherbed Lane and Selsdon Park Road, which contains a pub (The Forestdale Arms). The fish & chip shop here (McDermott's) was voted the best in London and the South-East in 2005.

Most homes were built here between the late 1960s and mid 1970s on previously open ground containing a number of smallholdings. Wates Group, a construction firm heavily involved in many of the homes' construction, won an award in 1972 due to the solar heating panels they installed in three of the houses.



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