Parks and playgrounds directory

Location

Upper Shirley, the woods run from Shirley Church Road, opposite Shirley Church Recreation Ground, to Upper Shirley Road.

Area

11 acres 4.45 hectares.

Facilities

• Woodland

History

The first Ordnance Survey map of Surrey, dated 1863‐1868 shows Pinewood as part of a much greater wood which included Addington Hills, Spring Park Wood and Ballards Plantation.  The same map marks what is now the Scout site as a "Pheasantry".  

The 1800 inclosure map shows Pinewood as part of Shirley Heath and was divided up as allotments for the inhabitants of Croydon.  Shirley Heath was then much larger than it is now and in 1762 formed part of Shirley and Addington Commons.  

The boggy area in the woodland is where one of the numerous springs in this area rises.