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I think you will find that The Parade is actually in what is now known as Old Coulsdon, and not in the Brighton Road. In the first half of the 20th century the original village of Coulsdon was renamed Old Coulsdon to distinguish it from the town that had grown along the Brighton Road in the valley a few miles away that had been called Smitham but had been renamed Coulsdon. The only 'Parade' and named as such, as opposed to a parade of shops, is in the Coulsdon Road near Bradmore Green. The shops are still called The Parade and number 5 is now Danny's Fish & Chip shop. The post code is CR5 1EH if you want to look at it on Google Maps.

Peter

I've spent ages trying to make out the surname of the burial of Thomas, son of Roger, that took place on 2 October 1682 at St Mary Lambeth. The entry in the register is attached.

I'm certainly no handwriting expert but have looked at several text books and can't find a good match for the initial letter, nor does the letter appear anywhere else in the register that I can see. All the other initial letters are 'modern' and easily readable. Ancestry reckon the name is Godly but there are other Gs that look nothing like it.

Can someone with far more knowledge than me make it out?

Thanks

Peter

West Norwood Cemetery, to give it its full name, and Brookwood were private cemeteries and by no means the only cemeteries where a Lambeth resident could be buried. The local authority ran their own municipal cemetery just outside their borough in Tooting and most residents of modest means were buried there.

The cemetery is in Blackshaw Road, Tooting, London SW17 0BY and the burial records are kept at the Cemetery Office.

Peter

Stockwell was in Surrey.  In fact I think Surrey started round about the Oval (hence the Surrey Cricket Ground).

Surrey extended right up to the south bank of the River Thames in those days and included what are now the London Boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth and Wandsworth.

Peter

No. Bourne Yard is west of the western railway line and south of Whyteleafe Hill. It's roughly where it says 41 576 on the map you refer to.

Peter