Penge

Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for TQ345705
Administration
London borough:	Bromley
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Nation:	England
Other
Police force:	Metropolitan
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Surrey (Kent)
ITV franchise:	ITV London
Post office and telephone
Post town:	LONDON
Postal district:	SE20
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Beckenham
London Assembly:	Bexley & Bromley
European Parliament:	London

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History

Penge was once a small town, which was recorded under the name Penceat in a Saxon deed dating from 957. Most historians believe the name of the town is derived from the Celtic word "Penceat" which means "edge of wood" and refers to the fact that the surrounding area was once covered in a dense forest. The original Celtic words of which the name was composed referred to "pen", "head", as in the Welsh "pen" (used in Penarth) and "ceat", "wood", similar to the Welsh "coed" (used in Llangoedmor). A map showing the general locations of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms circa 600CE. Anglo-Saxons is a term that refers to a collection of culturally related Germanic tribes from Angeln. ... Events Births Deaths Categories: 957 ... The Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, spoken by ancient and modern Celts alike. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Penarth (Welsh: pen head, + garth cliff or hill, or arth bear) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the Bristol Channel and Cardiff Bay. ... Llangoedmor is a village 2 miles east of Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales. ...

Penge was historically in Surrey and formed a detached part of the parish of Battersea. From 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, it formed part of the Croydon Rural District of that county. In 1899 Penge was removed from the rural district and formed the Penge Urban District of Kent. The urban district was abolished in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963, and its former area merged with that of other districts to form the London Borough of Bromley. Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ... The Local Government Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. ... The London Government Act 1963 was an Act of the UK parliament which led to the official recognition of the conurbation known as Greater London. ...

In the Victorian era Penge developed into a fashionable suburb because of it proximity to the relocated Crystal Palace. The facade of the original Crystal Palace side view of the Crystal Palace A huge iron and glass building, The Crystal Palace was one of the wonders of 19th Century Britain, if not the world. ...

Historical Buildings

The Watermen's Almshouses

• There are many Victorian almshouses in Penge, the oldest being the Royal Watermen's Almshouses[1], built around 1840 by the Watermen and Lightermen's company of the City of London for retired company Freemen and their widows. In 1973, the almspeople were moved to a new site in Hastings, and the original buildings were converted into private homes.
• The Queen Adelaide Almshouses were built in 1848 at the request of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the widow of King William IV, to provide shelter for twelve widows or orphan daughters of naval officers. Again, the almshouses are now in private residences.
• St. John's Cottages on Maple Road were built as almshouses in 1863, designed by the architect Edwin Nash. As with their predecessors, the cottages are now privately owned homes.
• In addition, the police station at the corner of the High Street and Green Lane is believed to be London's oldest working police station [2]

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Cultural references

Playing on the idea that the word penge seems to be an inherently funny word, and its apparent shabby-genteel image, the place has been lightly parodied by: An inherently funny word is a word which native speakers often find to be funny, for reasons ranging from onomatopoeia to sexual innuendo. ...

• Terry Wogan as Penge-sur-mer or Penge-les-trois-auberges, pronouncing Penge as the French might
• Rumpole of the Bailey as the location of his greatest triumph, the "Penge Bungalow Murders"
• Brian Wright in his (1986) book "Penge Papers: confessions of an unwaged metropolitan househusband" Macmillan ISBN 0330295063

Penge is also the Danish word for money. Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE (born 3 August 1938), generally known as Terry Wogan, is a popular radio and television broadcaster on the BBC in the United Kingdom. ... Rumpole of the Bailey is a television series created and written by British writer Sir John Mortimer, QC and starring Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients. ... Money Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of account. ...

Penge was also the childhood home of Bill Wyman (b. 1936 William George Perks) bassist from The Rolling Stones. Bill Wyman (born William George Perks on October 24, 1936) was the bassist for the British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from its founding in 1962 until 1991. ... A bassist is a musician who plays a double bass or electric bass (also referred to as bass guitar). ... The Rolling Stones are a British rock group who rose to prominence during the 1960s. ...

Nearest places

• Sydenham
• Crystal Palace
• Anerley
• Upper Norwood
• Beckenham
• South Norwood

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Nearest railway stations

• Penge East railway station
• Penge West railway station
• Anerley railway station
• Birkbeck railway station
• Clock House railway station
• Kent House railway station

Penge East railway station is in the London Borough of Bromley in south London. ... Penge West railway station is in the London Borough of Bromley in south London. ... Anerley railway station is in the London Borough of Bromley in south London. ... Birkbeck station is a railway station and tram stop in the London Borough of Bromley, located between Anerley and Elmers End on the A214 road. ... Entrance to Clock House station Clock House railway station is in the London Borough of Bromley in south east London, in Travelcard Zone 4 between Beckenham and Penge. ... Kent House railway station is in the London Borough of Bromley in south London. ...

External links

• Aerial photo of Penge
• The history of Penge
• A Penge Walk