Purley Way
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A23, Croydon CR0 4WT, UK Print route »
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Purley Way is a section of the A23 trunk road in the London Borough of Croydon, in the areas of Purley, Waddon and Broad Green, and has given its name to the out-of-town shopping area alongside it with a catchment area covering most of South London.
It was designed as a bypass for Croydon and was opened in April 1925 and was formed from improvements to pre-existing local roads, from north to south: Waddon Marsh Lane, Waddon Court Road and Coldharbour Lane (Thornton Road, the northern section of the bypass, was not renamed). In 1932, Purley Way became the first road in the United Kingdom to be lit with sodium lights.
