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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Anerley like this:
ANERLEY, or Annerley, a village on the Croydon railway, a mile SSW of Sydenham, Surrey. It has a r. station, a post office‡ under Norwood, tea-gardens, and an entrance to the Crystal Palace.
Anerley is now part of BROMLEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how BROMLEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Anerley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Anerley, in Bromley and Surrey | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24183
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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