Coombe Wood
Coombe Wood is a woodland and garden area in the London Borough of Croydon. Nearby, Crystal Palace High Level Station Entry (6.7 km) heads a list of 116 within 15 km. It has articles in 2 Wikipedias.
Garden in Croydon
Inside Croydon
Coombe Wood is inside Croydon’s built-up area, with 9 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
The climate through the year
Aim for May to September, when Croydon reaches 17–23°C.
Coombe Wood
Woodland and garden area in the London Borough of Croydon.
In Croydon, inside the town’s built-up area.
- Type
- Garden
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 2 languages
- Town
- in Croydon
Its place on the map
On this map, Coombe Wood is orange and its neighbours are numbered.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Croydon’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Bases near Coombe Wood
Croydon tops the 4 for size, at 389,242 people. Closest first, each of these towns names it on its page.
Croydon
Bromley
Sutton
Warlingham
Compare the 4 towns
| Town | Where Coombe Wood is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croydon | It’s in town | 389,242 | 49 |
| Bromley | 2.7 km northeast of it | 325,469 | 66 |
| Sutton | 3.7 km west of it | 208,858 | 26 |
| Warlingham | 4.7 km south of it | 8,918 | 10 |
Beyond Coombe Wood
Nearby, 116 places within 15 km include 5 museums, 2 art galleries and a historic house.
MuseumCrystal Palace High Level Station Entry6.7 km away2MuseumMuseumRoyal Observatory Greenwich14 km away3
Big drawMuseumNational Maritime Museum14 km away · 2.4M visitors a year4
MuseumCutty Sark14 km away5
Big drawArt galleryTate Britain15 km away · 525K visitors a year (2021)6
MuseumQueen's House14 km away7
Art galleryDulwich Picture Gallery9.4 km away8
Historic houseAddington Palace2 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Questions about Coombe Wood
Where is Coombe Wood?
Coombe Wood is in Croydon, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Coombe Wood?
Woodland and garden area in the London Borough of Croydon.
When is the best time to visit Coombe Wood?
May to September are the warmest months in Croydon, with afternoon highs of 17–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Coombe Wood?
Within 15 km: Crystal Palace High Level Station Entry (6.7 km), Royal Observatory Greenwich (14 km), National Maritime Museum (14 km) and Cutty Sark (14 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (8)
- Coombe Wood: Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Crystal Palace High Level Station Entry: Dickinson Brothers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- National Maritime Museum: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cutty Sark: Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tate Britain: Carlos Cunha, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Queen's House: Vladimír Procházka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dulwich Picture Gallery: Julian Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Addington Palace: Dieter Simon at English Wikipedia (Original text: Dieter Simon Dieter Simon), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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