South Norwood Park

We visited South Norwood Park in Croydon on Monday. It was hardly the warmest of days but it was quite a bracing walk around the lake. The lake is the former reservoir for the Croydon Canal which was dug in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The canal was later bought out by the local railway company which wanted it for the route of the new Croydon to London railway. Fortunately the reservoir survived and forms the centre piece of South Norwood Park which was created around it.