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    Purley is an area of the London Borough of Croydon in London, England, 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south of Charing Cross, with a history going back at least...
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  • Purley may refer to: Purley (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name Purley, London, England Purley railway station Purley...
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    Kit Connor (category People from Purley, London)
    South London Borough of Croydon on 8 March 2004. His parents, Richard and Caroline, are in advertising. He has two older siblings. He is from Purley and...
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    Peter Cushing (category People from Purley, London)
    Cushing family lived in Dulwich during the First World War, but moved to Purley after the war ended in 1918. Although raised during wartime, Cushing was...
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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...
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    Eunice Gayson (category People from Purley, London)
    Her father was a civil servant. The family lived in Streatham, London and moved to Purley, Surrey and later Glasgow, before settling in Edinburgh. There...
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    Purley railway station is in the London Borough of Croydon on the Brighton Main Line, 13 miles 29 chains (21.50 km) measured from London Bridge (15 miles...
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    Martin Lee (singer) (category People from Purley, London)
    group. He married Brotherhood of Man member Sandra Stevens. Born in Purley, London as Martin Barnes, he spent five years of his early life in Australia...
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  • to: Reedham railway station (Norfolk) Reedham railway station (London), in Purley, London, England This disambiguation page lists articles about railway...
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  • Purley, London Borough of Croydon The Thick of It - Westminster The Thin Blue Line - London borough of Gasforth (fictional) This Life - South London The...
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    of London. At its centre is the historic town of Croydon from which the borough takes its name; while other urban centres include Coulsdon, Purley, South...
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    Purley Oaks railway station is in the London Borough of Croydon in south London, on the Brighton Main Line 12 miles 34 chains (20.0 km) measured from...
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    London, England, within the London Borough of Croydon. Coulsdon was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey that included the settlements of Purley...
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    the London Hockey league structures. Current hockey clubs in and around the area are Addiscombe, Croydon Trinity Whitgiftian, Kenley, Purley, Purley Walcountians...
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  • Purley Downs Golf Club Halt railway station served the Purley Downs golf club area of Purley, London Borough of Croydon, England, from 1914 to 1927 on...
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    Jay Aston (category People from Purley, London)
    Jay Hilda Aston (born 4 May 1961 in Purley, Surrey) is a British singer and occasional songwriter. She was a member of the British pop group Bucks Fizz...
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  • Richard Thorp (category People from Purley, London)
    (1955) and The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957). Thorp was born in Purley, London. Whilst showing early ambitions to act he started working in the shoe...
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  • Shelagh Fraser (category People from Purley, London)
    Luke Skywalker's Aunt Beru in Star Wars (1977). Shelagh Fraser was born in Purley, Surrey, on 25 November 1920. Her parents were John Newton Mappin Fraser...
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    Colin Sell (category People from Purley, London)
    about the supposedly poor quality of his playing. Colin Sell was born in Purley, Surrey and grew up in Croydon, attending Trinity School. He gained a Bachelor...
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  • Maharani Gina Narayan (category People from Purley, London)
    childhood and early life except that it was modest. She was educated at Purley County Grammar School for Girls. Her father died when she was young and...
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    Purley Council Offices, also known as Purley Town Hall, is a former municipal building in Brighton Road, Purley, London. The structure, which was the...
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  • Placehouse Lane, Old Coulsdon, London Borough of Croydon. The school was Purley County Grammar School from 1914 to 1969, becoming Purley Grammar School for Boys...
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    Purley & Woodcote is a ward in the London Borough of Croydon. It is created from parts of Purley and Coulsdon West wards. The ward's first election is...
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  • who was a non-smoker, died from lung cancer on 24 December 2013 in Purley, London. He was 76. Shaw, Phil (27 December 2013). "Ron Noades: Football club...
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    Derren Brown (category People from Purley, London)
    Brown was born in the London Borough of Croydon on 27 February 1971, the son of Chris and Bob Brown. He was raised in Croydon's Purley area, which he described...
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  • Colin Mitchell (category People from Purley, London)
    LMS Railway company. The couple took up residence in the South London suburb of Purley where they had two children – Colin and Henrietta. The family lived...
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    includes such works as London Lickpenny (1973) and The Diversions of Purley (1987). In 1982 he published The Great Fire of London, his first novel, which...
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  • The Purley station rail crash was a train collision that occurred just to the north of Purley railway station in the London Borough of Croydon on Saturday...
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    Riddlesdown Collegiate (category Secondary schools in the London Borough of Croydon)
    needed]. The school takes its pupils mainly from the Sanderstead, Selsdon, Purley, Kenley, New Addington and South Croydon areas, and specialises in science...
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  • Nigel Harman (category People from Purley, London)
    Grandage's revival of Guys and Dolls and as Lord Farquaad in the original London production of Shrek the Musical, for which he received an Olivier Award...
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