Editing London Borough of Croydon (section)

===Administrative history===
The area of the modern borough broadly corresponds to the four [[ancient parish]]es of [[Croydon]], [[Addington, London|Addington]], [[Coulsdon]] and [[Sanderstead]].

The parish of Croydon was governed by [[improvement commissioners]] from 1829 until 1849, when it was made a [[Local board of health|local board district]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Croydon Improvement Act 1829 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Geo4/10/73/contents/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=18 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lawes |first1=Edward |title=The Act for promoting the Public Health, with notes |date=1851 |publisher=Shaw and Sons |location=London |page=262 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRJXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA262 |access-date=5 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lancaster |first1=Brian |title=The "Croydon Case": Dirty Old Town to Model Town |date=2001 |publisher=Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society |isbn=978-0-906047-16-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wIgAQAAMAAJ&q=Croydon%20improvement%20act%201829 |access-date=18 May 2024}}</ref> Croydon was incorporated as a [[municipal borough]] in 1883.<ref>{{cite web |title=Croydon Municipal Borough / County Borough |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10107830 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=5 April 2024}}</ref> When elected county councils were established in 1889, Croydon was considered large enough to provide its county-level services. It was therefore made a [[county borough]], independent from the new [[Surrey County Council]], whilst remaining part of [[Surrey]] for judicial and [[Lord-lieutenant|lieutenancy]] purposes.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1888|year=1888|chapter=41}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Diagram of Surrey showing administrative boundaries, 1963 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241244560 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=5 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Surrey |date=1913 |page=97 |url=https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/85749/rec/3 |access-date=18 May 2024}}</ref> The borough was enlarged in 1928 to absorb the neighbouring parish of Addington.<ref>{{cite web |title=Croydon Corporation Act 1927 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Geo5/17-18/106/contents/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=18 May 2024}}</ref>

Coulsdon and Sanderstead were governed as [[rural parish]]es within the [[Croydon Rural District]] until 1915 when the [[Coulsdon and Purley Urban District]] was created covering the two parishes. [[Purley, London|Purley]] itself was not a civil parish, being in the parish of Coulsdon, but was included in the urban district's name on account of it being one of the main built-up settlements in the district. There were subsequent adjustments to the boundaries with neighbouring areas, notably including in 1933 when the urban district absorbed the parish of [[Farleigh, Surrey|Farleigh]], after which there were three [[urban parish]]es in the district, Cousldon, Farleigh, and Sanderstead.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coulsdon and Purley Urban District |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10186304 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=18 May 2024}}</ref>

The London Borough of Croydon was created on 1 April 1965 under the [[London Government Act 1963]], covering the combined area of the former Coulsdon and Purley Urban District and the [[County Borough of Croydon]], both of which were abolished at the same time. The area was transferred from Surrey to Greater London to become one of the 32 London boroughs.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=London Government Act 1963|chapter=33|access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref><ref name="Arms of Croydon Online"/> The Farleigh area was removed from the borough in 1969 and transferred back to Surrey, becoming part of the parish of [[Chelsham and Farleigh]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Croydon London Borough |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10108664#tab02 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=18 May 2024}}</ref>

The borough council has unsuccessfully applied for [[City status in the United Kingdom|city status]] on several occasions: in 1965, 1977, 1992, 2000, 2002, and 2012. At present, the London Borough of Croydon is the second most populous [[local authority district|local government district]] of England without city status. Croydon's applications were refused as it was felt not to have an identity separate from the rest of Greater London. In 1965, it was described as "...now just part of the London conurbation and almost indistinguishable from many of the other Greater London boroughs" and in 2000 as having "no particular identity of its own".<ref name="beckett">{{cite book|title=City status in the British Isles, 1830–2002|series=Historical Urban Studies|last=Beckett |first=John |author-link=John Beckett (historian) |year=2005 |publisher=Ashgate|location=Aldershot|isbn=0-7546-5067-7 |pages=100, 103, 110, 122–4, 129, 131, 143, 146, 150, 166, 168, 175–6 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Results of Diamond Jubilee Civic Honours Competition announced|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/results-of-diamond-jubilee-civic-honours-competition-announced|publisher=Cabinet Office|access-date=27 March 2012|date=14 March 2012}}</ref>